Test 11 · The birth of Jesus

What did Herod feel about the newborn king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Herod · What happens: feel

This is test 11 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 feel	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	Herod	Herod	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
7	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 king	amod
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	Herod					about the newborn king	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme about king=Location

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

Pity and a wish to help the poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wish	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wish	det
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pity	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pity	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		the poor					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary

Option 2

Joy and a wish to give gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joy	Joy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wish	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wish	det
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Joy	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wish	acl
7	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		gifts					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Jealous fear for his own throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fear	amod
2	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 throne	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 throne	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 throne	amod
6	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fear	nmod

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

Option 4

Nothing, he never heard of him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 heard	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past	Nothing					of him = he	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus

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