Exam question 1 · The Last Supper and the crucifixion
Identify the occasion upon which Jesus entered Jerusalem mounted upon a donkey, attended by multitudes bearing palm branches.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Jesus, Jerusalem, multitudes · What happens: identify, enter, mount, attend, bear · To what, where: occasion, donkey, palm branches
This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «The Last Supper and the crucifixion» 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 occasion | det |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 entered | obl |
| 6 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 occasion | acl |
| 8 | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | nsubj |
| 9 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | ccomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 donkey | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 donkey | det |
| 12 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mounted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attended | punct |
| 14 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 donkey | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 multitudes | case |
| 16 | multitudes | multitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 attended | obl:agent |
| 17 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 multitudes | acl |
| 18 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 branches | compound |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bearing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | 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 occasion | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Jesus | upon the occasion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | Jerusalem | upon a donkey | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon donkey=Destination | ||||
| 4 | attend | participle | a donkey not said here | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bear | gerund | multitudes not said here | palm branches | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
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
Good Friday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Friday | amod |
| 2 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ash Wednesday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ash | Ash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wednesday | compound |
| 2 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Pentecost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentecost | pentecost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Palm Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palm | Palm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sunday | compound |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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