Exam question 3 · What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit

Select the response consistent with Christian teaching concerning the nature of Jesus.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Christian teaching · What happens: select, concern · To what, where: response, nature

This is exam question 3 of lesson 21 «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 teaching	case
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teaching	amod
7	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consistent	obl
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 teaching	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nature	det
10	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Jesus	case
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nature	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	concern	gerund	Christian teaching not said here	the nature of Jesus					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nature=Experiencer

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

That he is solely human and possessed no divinity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 human	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 human	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 human	cop
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	5 human	advmod
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 possessed	cc
7	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 human	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 divinity	det
9	divinity	divinity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					human, solely property	tree rules
2	possess	past	That not said here	no divinity					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot divinity=Theme

Option 2

That he became divine only subsequent to his death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 became	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 subsequent	advmod
6	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 death	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 death	nmod:poss
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 subsequent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	That					divine, subsequent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	die		his = he						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

That he is solely divine and merely appeared human

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 divine	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 divine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 divine	cop
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	5 divine	advmod
5	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 appeared	cc
7	merely	merely	ADV	_	8 appeared	advmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 divine	conj
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 appeared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					divine, solely property	tree rules
2	appear	past	That not said here					human, merely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That he is at once fully divine and fully human

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 divine	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 divine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 divine	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 divine	obl
6	fully	fully	ADV	_	7 divine	advmod
7	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 human	cc
9	fully	fully	ADV	_	10 human	advmod
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 divine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					divine, fully property	tree rules
2	be		That not said here					fully property	tree rules

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