--- title: In Auckland, "sweet as" means what? — Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice · tree and pragmatics description: In Auckland, "sweet as" means what? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 84 «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/) / [Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice In Auckland, "sweet as" means what? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sweet · **What happens:** mean This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 84 «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice:t10:1 # text = In Auckland, "sweet as" means what? 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 nsubj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | sweet | | | | | in Auckland | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme in auckland=Attribute | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Sugary and sticky ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice:t10:o1:1 # text = Sugary and sticky 1 Sugary sugary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sad and lonely ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice:t10:o2:1 # text = Sad and lonely 1 Sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Great, fine ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice:t10:o3:1 # text = Great, fine 1 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Much too sweet to eat ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice:t10:o4:1 # text = Much too sweet to eat 1 Much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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