Test 7 · Creation: God the maker
Your cousin says: "All Christians believe the world was made in six 24-hour days." What is more accurate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Christians · What happens: say, believe, make, be · To what, where: world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 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: Your cousin says: "All Christians believe the world was made in six 24-hour days."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| 6 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Christians | det |
| 7 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 believe | nsubj |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 believe | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 15 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 hour | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 24 | punct |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 days | compound |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | present | all Christians | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | past · passive | the world | day | 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: What is more accurate?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 accurate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 accurate | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 accurate | advmod |
| 4 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 accurate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | accurate property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, every Christian believes exactly that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 believes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Christian | det |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 believes | nsubj |
| 5 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 that | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 believes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | every Christian | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Some do, but many read the days as a poem-like story; Christians disagree
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 read | cc |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 read | nsubj |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 read | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 11 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 poem | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 story | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 read | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 disagree | punct |
| 16 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 disagree | nsubj |
| 17 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 do | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Some | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | read | past | many | day | as a like story | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as story=Attribute | |||
| 3 | disagree | present | Christians | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Christians say the days were six years long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 years | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 years | cop |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 say | ccomp |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Christians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the days | six years | tree rules |
Option 4
No Christian has ever believed that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 Christian | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 believed | advmod |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 believed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · perfect · passive | no Christian | ever | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme that=Eventuality |
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