Test 5 · ★★★ · Daniel, Jonah and the prophets

«the guy in the whale story was a hero who went straight where god said». right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy, hero, god · What happens: be, go, say · To what, where: hero · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 hero	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guy	det
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hero	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 story	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	compound
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guy	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hero	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hero	det
10	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hero	acl:relcl
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 where	advmod
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 said	advmod
15	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hero	punct
19	right	right	INTJ	_	10 hero	discourse
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the guy in the whale story	a hero	tree rules
2	go in a quote	past	a hero		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	god		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

Yes, Jonah went at once, gladly and quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gladly	punct
8	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 quickly	cc
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 gladly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jonah					gladly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, Jonah first ran away the other way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	Jonah	the other way				first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and the whale carried him all the way there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 carried	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carried	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the whale	him = he				all way obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

No, Jonah never actually got to Nineveh at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 got	advmod
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
6	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Nineveh	case
8	Nineveh	Nineveh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	participle	Jonah		Nineveh	all		actually property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nineveh=Result

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