Test 3 · ★★ · The Sermon on the Mount
«Jake pushed me yesterday so I'm gonna shove him back harder, fair's fair.» What does Jesus' teaching say?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, I, teaching, Jesus · What happens: push, shove, say, teach · To what, where: me, Jake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 17 «The Sermon on the Mount» 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: «Jake pushed me yesterday so I'm gonna shove him back harder, fair's fair.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
| 2 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pushed | obj |
| 5 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 shove | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 shove | nsubj |
| 8 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shove | aux |
| 9 | gonna | gonna | PART | _ | 10 shove | mark |
| 10 | shove | shove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pushed | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shove | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 harder | advmod |
| 13 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 shove | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fair | punct |
| 15 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obl |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 fair | case |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pushed | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push in a quote | past | Jake | me | yesterday | 's fair; fair property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 2 | shove in a quote | present | I | Jake | hard property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Jesus' teaching 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 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 teaching | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jesus | case |
| 5 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 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 | Jesus's teaching | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | teach | Jesus | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Do not take revenge; break the cycle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cycle | det |
| 8 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 break | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | imperative · do-support | you not said here | revenge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | infinitive | you not said here | the cycle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cycle=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Pay him back exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pay | obj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Pay | advmod |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 same | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pay | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay back | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
Option 3
Get your friends to shove him for you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Get | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 shove | mark |
| 5 | shove | shove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Get | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shove | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 shove | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | your friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shove | to-infinitive | your friends not said here | him = he | for you | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
Wait and get him when no one is looking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 get | cc |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 looking | aux |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 get | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | present · progressive | no one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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