Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many fai…
A cartoon shows Noah's Ark sailing past the Tower of Babel with Moses waving from the deck. What's the slip?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, slip · What happens: show, sail, wave, be · To what, where: Ark, Tower, deck
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 102 «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» 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: A cartoon shows Noah's Ark sailing past the Tower of Babel with Moses waving from the deck.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ark | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Noah | case |
| 6 | Ark | Ark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shows | advcl |
| 8 | past | past | ADP | _ | 10 Tower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tower | det |
| 10 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sailing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Babel | case |
| 12 | Babel | Babel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tower | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Moses | case |
| 14 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sailing | obl |
| 15 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sailing | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 deck | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deck | det |
| 18 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | Noah's Ark | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ark=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | sail | gerund | a cartoon not said here | the Tower of Babel | with Moses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past tower=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | a cartoon not said here | the deck | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: 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.
Sentence 2: What's the slip?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slip | det |
| 4 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the slip | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only that the Ark should be painted blue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 7 painted | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 painted | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ark | det |
| 4 | Ark | Ark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 painted | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 painted | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 painted | aux:pass |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 painted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | should · passive | the Ark | blue property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, they all happened on the same day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Nothing | day | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Moses should be steering, not waving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 steering | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 steering | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 steering | aux |
| 4 | steering | steer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waving | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 waving | advmod |
| 7 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 steering | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer | should · progressive | Moses | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not wave | gerund | Moses not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Noah's flood comes before Babel, and Moses lives ages after both
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flood | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Babel | case |
| 6 | Babel | Babel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lives | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lives | cc |
| 9 | Moses | Moses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 11 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lives | obj |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 both | case |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Noah's flood | Babel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before babel=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Moses | ages | after both | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme age=Location | |||
| 3 | flood | Noah | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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