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Test 8 · ★★ · The Sermon on the Mount

A boy at Sunday school says, «Being salt and light means showing off how good you are.» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, salt, you · What happens: say, be, mean, show off · To what, where: salt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: A boy at Sunday school says, «Being salt and light means showing off how good you are.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 school	case
4	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 school	compound
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 salt	punct
9	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 salt	cop
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 means	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 light	cc
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 salt	conj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
14	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 means	xcomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 showing	compound:prt
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 showing	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 good	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 good	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy at Sunday school						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	gerund		salt and light					tree rules
3	mean in a quote	present	salt and light						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	show off not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	salt and light not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	you					good property	tree rules

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 is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It means staying away from everyone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 staying	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 staying	obl
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 everyone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay away not said to happen	gerund				everyone		away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It means only being good in church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 good	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 church	case
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund				church		good property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, the aim is to be praised by people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 praised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 aim	det
4	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 praised	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 praised	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 praised	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 praised	aux:pass
8	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 praised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	present · passive	people	the aim					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It means doing good so others give glory to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doing	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 give	mark
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	advcl
8	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 God	case
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	gerund		good					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	give	present	others	glory	God				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent glory=Theme to god=Recipient

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