Test 6 · The birth of Jesus
New kid at school fled a war with her family. How does the Christmas story connect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: New kid, Christmas story · What happens: flee, connect · To what, where: war
This is test 6 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: New kid at school fled a war with her family.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kid | amod |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kid | nmod |
| 5 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 war | det |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fled | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fled | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | New kid at school | a war | with kid's family | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=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.
Sentence 2: How does the Christmas story connect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 connect | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 connect | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 connect | nsubj |
| 6 | connect | connect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 connect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | connect | present · do-support | the Christmas story | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Jesus' family were refugees in Egypt too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jesus | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refugees | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refugees | cop |
| 5 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 refugees | nmod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 refugees | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jesus's family | refugees | Egypt | tree rules |
Option 2
Jesus' family stayed safely at home in Nazareth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jesus | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Nazareth | case |
| 9 | Nazareth | Nazareth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Jesus's family | home | in Nazareth; safely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
Option 3
The story says that refugees must always go back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 5 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go back | must | refugees | always property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The wise men were refugees running from Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 refugees | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refugees | cop |
| 5 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 refugees | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Egypt | case |
| 8 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 running | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wise men | refugees | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | refugees not said here | Egypt | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Trajectory |
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