Exam question 1 · The Sermon on the Mount

Identify the location within the Scriptures of the discourse designated the Sermon on the Mount.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Scriptures · What happens: identify, designate · To what, where: location, Sermon, Mount

This is exam question 1 of lesson 17 «The Sermon on the Mount» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	10 designated	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Scriptures	det
6	Scriptures	Scripture	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 designated	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 discourse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 discourse	det
9	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Scriptures	nmod
10	designated	designate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sermon	det
12	Sermon	Sermon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 designated	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 Mount	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mount	det
15	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 designated	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	designate	past	the Scriptures of the discourse	the Sermon		the Mount			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sermon=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Acts of the Apostles, chapter two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Acts	det
2	Acts	Act	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Apostles	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Apostles	det
5	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Acts	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chapter	punct
7	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Acts	appos
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chapter	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Book of Psalms, Psalm twenty-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Book	det
2	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Psalms	case
4	Psalms	Psalm	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Book	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Psalm	punct
6	Psalm	Psalm	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Book	appos
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Psalm	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 twenty	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 twenty	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Gospel according to Matthew, chapters five to seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Gospel	det
2	Gospel	Gospel	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 Matthew	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 according	fixed
5	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gospel	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chapters	punct
7	chapters	chapter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Gospel	appos
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 chapters	flat
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 seven	case
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 five	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Book of Genesis, chapters one to three, at the very beginning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Book	det
2	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chapters	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Genesis	case
4	Genesis	Genesis	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Book	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Book	punct
6	chapters	chapter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 chapters	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 three	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beginning	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 beginning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 beginning	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 beginning	advmod
14	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chapters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chapter	present	the Book of Genesis	one				to three	tree rules

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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