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Test 2 · The birth of Jesus

Ella says Mary was told about the baby by a shepherd. Put her right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, shepherd, you · What happens: say, tell, put · To what, where: Mary · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: Ella says Mary was told about the baby by a shepherd.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 says	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 baby	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 shepherd	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shepherd	det
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ella						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive	a shepherd	Mary				about the baby	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient about baby=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: Put her right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Mary			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was John the Baptist's father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 John	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 John	cop
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Baptist	det
5	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Baptist	case
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 John	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	John					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was the angel Gabriel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angel	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angel	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	Gabriel	Gabriel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 angel	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the angel					tree rules

Option 3

It was the innkeeper's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wife	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 innkeeper	det
4	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 innkeeper	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the innkeeper's wife					tree rules

Option 4

It was King Herod in a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 Herod	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Herod	cop
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Herod	compound
4	Herod	Herod	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 letter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 letter	det
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Herod	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	King Herod		a letter			tree rules

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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