Test 5 · The birth of Jesus

Why might the angels have gone to the shepherds first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: angels · What happens: go

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 gone	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angels	det
4	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 shepherds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shepherds	det
9	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	obl
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 gone	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	might · perfect	the angels					to the shepherds; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shepherd=Initial_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

Shepherds were the richest and most important people nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 richest	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 richest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 richest	det
4	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 important	advmod
7	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 richest	conj
9	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	4 richest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Shepherds					nearby, rich property	tree rules

Option 2

The king had ordered them to wait for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ordered	aux
4	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wait	mark
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ordered	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past · perfect	the king		them = they				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here					for it	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Shepherds were the priests of Bethlehem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 priests	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 priests	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priests	det
4	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Bethlehem	case
6	Bethlehem	Bethlehem	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 priests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Shepherds	the priests				of Bethlehem	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Good news came first to ordinary, looked-down-on workers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 news	amod
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 ordinary	case
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
8	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 down	punct
10	down	down	ADV	_	13 workers	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 down	punct
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 workers	case
13	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Good news			ordinary		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ordinary=Initial_Location
2	look	participle	Good news not said here					down workers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent down worker=Theme

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