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Test 7 · The birth of Jesus

Joseph hardly says a word in the story. What does he show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Joseph · What happens: say, show · To what, where: word, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Joseph hardly says a word in the story.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 story	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Joseph	a word		the story		hardly property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in story=Manner

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: What does he show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	Joseph						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Quiet faithfulness: he protects Mary and the child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 faithfulness	amod
2	faithfulness	faithfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protects	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 protects	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 protects	nsubj
5	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 protects	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 child	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Mary	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	Quiet faithfulness		Mary and the child				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mary=Beneficiary

Option 2

That he was angry and left them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 angry	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					angry property	tree rules
2	leave	past	That not said here	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

That he was too shy to speak to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 shy	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 shy	advmod
5	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 speak	mark
7	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shy	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					shy property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	That not said here					to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 4

That he did not care about the baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 care	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 care	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 care	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 care	advmod
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
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 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not care	past · do-support	That					about the baby	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about baby=Stimulus

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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