Test 9 · ★ · Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel

my cousin reckons Christians all think Adam and Eve were deffo two real people. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Adam · What happens: reckon, think, be · To what, where: Christians, two real people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2 «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 reckons	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	advcl
7	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 people	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Eve	cc
9	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Adam	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 people	cop
11	deffo	deffo	ADV	_	14 people	advmod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 people	nummod
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 think	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my cousin	Christians		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent christian=Attribute
2	think speech: other	present	my cousin not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Adam and Eve	two real people	deffo 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, no Christian ever thought they were real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 Christian	det
4	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 thought	advmod
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 real	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	no Christian				ever		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					real property	tree rules

Option 2

Christians think they were angels, not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angels	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angels	cop
5	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 think	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 people	advmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 angels	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Christians						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Christians = christian	angels and people					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not all; some think so, others read it as a story about all humanity

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 think	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Not	fixed
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Not	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 read	nsubj
9	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 read	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 story	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 humanity	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 humanity	det
16	humanity	humanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present	some						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	past	others	it				as a story about all humanity	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as story=Attribute

Option 4

Yes, every Christian thinks exactly that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 thinks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Christian	det
4	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thinks	nsubj
5	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 that	advmod
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	every Christian						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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