Test 11 · Creation: God the maker

Judge's follow-up: "Why does the story say people were made last?" Which answer fits the story best?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: story, answer · What happens: say, make, fit · To what, where: people, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «Creation: God the maker» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Judge's follow-up: "Why does the story say people were made last?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Judge	Judge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 up	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Judge	case
3	follow	follow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 say	advmod
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 up	acl:relcl
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 made	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	aux:pass
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 say	ccomp
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 made	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	present · do-support	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past · passive		people				last property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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.

Sentence 2: Which answer fits the story best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fits	nsubj
3	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fits	obj
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 story	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	which answer	the story best					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient

The options

Option 1

People were an afterthought that God almost forgot to make at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 afterthought	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afterthought	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 afterthought	det
4	afterthought	afterthought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 forgot	obj
6	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 forgot	nsubj
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 forgot	advmod
8	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afterthought	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgot	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	People	a afterthought			tree rules
2	forget	past	God	a afterthought		almost property	tree rules
3	not make	to-infinitive	God not said here		all		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

People were made last because they matter least

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 matter	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 matter	nsubj
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	advcl
8	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		People				last property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	matter	present	People					least property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People are the high point of creation, made to care for the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 point	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 point	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 point	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 point	amod
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 creation	case
7	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 point	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 point	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 care	mark
11	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 rest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	People	the high point	of creation	tree rules
2	make	participle		the high point not said here		tree rules
3	care	to-infinitive	the high point not said here		for the rest	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for rest=Theme

Option 4

God had run out of room for people before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 run	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl:agent
9	before	before	ADV	_	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · perfect	God			room		before property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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