Test 10 · The birth of Jesus

Judge: «What does it mean to say God is Emmanuel?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Judge · What happens: mean, say, be · To what, where: Judge, God Emmanuel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 12 «The birth of Jesus» 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	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mean	obj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mean	nsubj
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Judge	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mean	xcomp
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Emmanuel	compound
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Emmanuel	cop
12	Emmanuel	Emmanuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Judge	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Judge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present · do-support	Judge	Judge	tree rules
2	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Judge not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		God Emmanuel	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

That God is far away, high above the stars, and never comes near

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 God	det
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 high	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 high	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 high	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 stars	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stars	det
10	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 high	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 comes	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 comes	advmod
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 high	advcl
15	near	near	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that God			the stars		far, high property	tree rules
2	not come	present	that God not said here					near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That in Jesus God came to live among people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 God	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Jesus	case
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 God	nmod
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	among	among	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	God in Jesus						tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	God in Jesus not said here					among people	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among people=Location

Option 3

That God lives only in the Temple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 God	det
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 Temple	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Temple	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Temple	det
7	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	that God			the Temple			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in temple=Location

Option 4

That God is a king like Herod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 God	det
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 king	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 Herod	case
7	Herod	Herod	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that God	a king				like Herod	tree rules

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