Exam question 3 · The birth of Jesus
Ascertain, pursuant to the Gospel account, the gifts presented by the magi.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, present · To what, where: Gospel account, gifts
This is exam question 3 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 account | punct |
| 3 | pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 7 account | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 account | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 account | det |
| 6 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 account | compound |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gifts | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gifts | det |
| 10 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 account | appos |
| 11 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gifts | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 magi | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 magi | det |
| 14 | magi | magus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 presented | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the Gospel account | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic | ||||
| 2 | present | participle | the gifts not said here | by the magi | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Silver, a lamb and linen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lamb | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lamb | det |
| 4 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silver | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 linen | cc |
| 6 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silver | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Gold, frankincense and myrrh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 frankincense | punct |
| 3 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 myrrh | cc |
| 5 | myrrh | myrrh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bread, wine and oil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wine | punct |
| 3 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bread | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 oil | cc |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A crown, a sceptre and a robe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sceptre | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sceptre | det |
| 5 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 robe | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 robe | det |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | conj |
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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