Test 9 · ★ · Jesus' life and teaching

Judge: «Why might Jesus have chosen fishermen rather than important people?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jesus · What happens: choose

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 13 «Jesus' life and teaching» 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	Judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fishermen	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 fishermen	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 chosen	advmod
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	aux
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chosen	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	aux
8	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fishermen	amod
9	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Judge	appos
10	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 people	cc
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 rather	fixed
12	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fishermen	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 people	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose in a quote	might · perfect	Jesus						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He chose ordinary people and changed their lives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chose	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 changed	cc
6	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chose	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lives	nmod:poss
8	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	He	ordinary people					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	change	past	He not said here	people's lives					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

Option 2

Fishermen were the richest men around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 men	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 men	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fishermen	the richest men				around property	tree rules

Option 3

Only fishermen could read the Scriptures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 fishermen	advmod
2	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Scriptures	det
6	Scriptures	scripture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	could	fishermen	the Scriptures					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scripture=Topic

Option 4

Important people had all said no first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 first	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Important people	no first				all property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent first=Topic

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