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Test 5 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

Ethiopia's emperors said they came from Solomon. What does that show about the story?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperors, that · What happens: say, come, show · To what, where: Solomon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Ethiopia's emperors said they came from Solomon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 emperors	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ethiopia	case
3	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Solomon	case
8	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ethiopia's emperors						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	emperors = emperor			Solomon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from solomon=Initial_Location

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 does that show about the story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that					about the story	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Recipient about story=Topic

The options

Option 1

Every king in the world said exactly the same thing about Solomon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 thing	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 Solomon	case
12	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	every king in the world						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was only a children's story nobody believed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 story	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 story	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 story	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 children	case
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 story	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a children's story					tree rules
2	believe	past	nobody	a children's story not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It mattered so much that kings built their family history on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mattered	nsubj
2	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mattered	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 built	mark
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	nsubj
7	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mattered	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 history	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 history	compound
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	past	It	much					tree rules
2	build	past	kings	kings's family history		history			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent history=Theme on it=Source

Option 4

Ethiopia was part of Israel at the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Israel	case
5	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ethiopia	part			time	of Israel	tree rules

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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