Test 7 · ★ · Easter and Pentecost
A Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jewish friend, Pentecost · What happens: say, sound, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 19 «Easter and Pentecost» 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 Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 2 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | nsubj |
| 6 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 festival | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 festival | nmod:poss |
| 9 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounds | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Shavuot | case |
| 11 | Shavuot | Shavuot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 festival | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a Jewish friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | Pentecost | like their festival of Shavuot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Pentecost happened at the Jewish feast fifty days after Passover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 feast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 5 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feast | amod |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 Passover | case |
| 10 | Passover | Passover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | Pentecost | the Jewish feast | after Passover; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at feast=Location |
Option 2
Pentecost has nothing to do with any Jewish feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentecost | pentecost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 feast | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 feast | det |
| 8 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feast | amod |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Pentecost | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Pentecost not said here | nothing not said here | with any Jewish feast | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Pentecost was invented hundreds of years later by the Church in Rome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentecost | Pentecost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invented | aux:pass |
| 3 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 invented | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hundreds | nmod |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 invented | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Church | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Church | det |
| 10 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invented | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Rome | case |
| 12 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Church | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past · passive | the Church in Rome | Pentecost | late property | tree rules |
Option 4
Pentecost is the Christian name for Hanukkah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pentecost | pentecost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | amod |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Hanukkah | case |
| 7 | Hanukkah | Hanukkah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Pentecost | the Christian name | for Hanukkah | tree rules |
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