Exam question 1 · The birth of Jesus
Identify the principal reason for which Joseph and Mary undertook the journey to Bethlehem.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Joseph · What happens: identify, undertake · To what, where: principal reason, journey, Bethlehem
This is exam question 1 of lesson 12 «The birth of Jesus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reason | amod |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 undertook | obl |
| 7 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Mary | cc |
| 9 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Joseph | conj |
| 10 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Bethlehem | case |
| 14 | Bethlehem | Bethlehem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal reason | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 2 | undertake | past | Joseph and Mary | the journey | Bethlehem | for the principal reason | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A census decreed by the Roman authorities
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 census | det |
| 2 | census | census | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | decreed | decree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 census | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 authorities | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 authorities | det |
| 6 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 authorities | amod |
| 7 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decreed | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decree | participle | a census not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Attendance at a festival in the Temple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 festival | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 festival | det |
| 4 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Attendance | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Temple | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Temple | det |
| 7 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 festival | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Flight from the persecution of King Herod
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 persecution | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 persecution | det |
| 4 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Flight | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Herod | case |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Herod | compound |
| 7 | Herod | Herod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 persecution | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persecute | King Herod | nom persecution «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Employment in the carpentry trade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 trade | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trade | det |
| 4 | carpentry | carpentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trade | compound |
| 5 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Employment | 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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