Test 10 · Psalms and Proverbs

Judge: «Psalms are prayers to God; Proverbs are mostly what?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Psalms, Judge · What happens: be · To what, where: prayers, God

This is test 10 of lesson 11 «Psalms and Proverbs» 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	Judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 prayers	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 prayers	punct
4	Psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 prayers	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prayers	cop
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Judge	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 God	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prayers	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Proverbs	punct
10	Proverbs	proverb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Judge	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Psalms	prayers	God				tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	Judge and prayers and Proverbs					mostly 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 · ← Mova's choice

Commandments that were given on Mount Sinai

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Commandments	commandment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Commandments	acl:relcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Mount	case
6	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
7	Sinai	Sinai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Mount	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Commandments		Mount			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme on mount=Asset

Option 2

Prophecies about what will happen in the future

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prophecies	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 happen	mark
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Prophecies	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 future	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 future	det
8	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	future	Prophecies			the future			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in future=Location

Option 3

Prayers of sorrow and of complaint sung to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 sorrow	case
3	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prayers	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 complaint	cc
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 complaint	case
6	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorrow	conj
7	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 complaint	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 God	case
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle		complaint not said here	God				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient
2	pray		sorrow and complaint						nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Practical wise sayings about everyday life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sayings	amod
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sayings	amod
3	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sayings	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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