Test 1 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

«Kipling made up Solomon and Balkis for his book» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kipling · What happens: make up, be · To what, where: Solomon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» 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	_	3 made	punct
2	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 true	csubj
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Balkis	cc
7	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Solomon	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 book	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 book	nmod:poss
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up in a quote	past	Kipling	Solomon and Balkis				for Kipling's book	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme solomon=Pivot
2	is	present						true property	tree rules

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

Kipling made up both of them, and nobody had heard of them before 1902

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 both	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 heard	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 made	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 1902	case
15	1902	1902	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	Kipling	both					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme both=Pivot
2	hear	past · perfect	nobody				before 1902	of them = they	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus

Option 2

They are from a Greek play written by Homer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 play	cop
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 play	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 play	det
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 play	amod
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 play	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Homer	case
9	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			a Greek play			tree rules
2	write	participle		a Greek play not said here				by Homer	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Solomon is from Kipling but Balkis is from a film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 film	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Kipling	cop
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Kipling	case
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Solomon	nmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Balkis	cc
6	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Solomon	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 film	cop
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 film	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				Kipling			tree rules
2	is	present	Solomon but Balkis			a film			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kipling took them from much older stories in the Bible, the Qur'an and legends

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 stories	case
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 older	advmod
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Bible	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bible	det
10	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Qur'an	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Qur'an	det
13	Qur'an	Qur'an	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bible	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 legends	cc
15	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 Bible	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Kipling	them = they		older stories		in the Bible and the Qur'an and legends	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from story=Initial_Location

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