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Test 9 · ★ · The miracles of Jesus

A friend says, «Peter sank because he couldn't swim.» What does the story actually say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, Peter, story · What happens: say, sink, not swim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 16 «The miracles 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: A friend says, «Peter sank because he couldn't swim.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sank	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 sank	punct
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sank	nsubj
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 swim	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 swim	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 swim	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 swim	advmod
12	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sank	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sink in a quote	past	Peter						tree rules
3	not swim in a quote	could	Peter						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 the story actually say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the story					actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

He sank because it was night

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 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 night	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 night	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 night	cop
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	He						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	it				because night		tree rules

Option 2

He sank because Jesus pushed him

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 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 pushed	mark
4	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pushed	nsubj
5	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	He						tree rules
2	push	past	Jesus	him = he					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He sank when he looked at the waves and was afraid

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 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 looked	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 waves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 waves	det
8	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 afraid	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 afraid	cop
11	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sank	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	He						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	look	past	he					at the waves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wave=Theme
3	is	past	He not said here					afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

He sank because the boat had drifted too far away from him

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 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 drifted	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drifted	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drifted	aux
7	drifted	drift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sank	ccomp
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 drifted	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	He						tree rules
2	drift	past · perfect · passive		the boat				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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