Test 7 · What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit
«Shut up, Jesus was just a nice bloke who told stories,» says an older boy. What do Christians believe instead?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jesus, nice bloke, older boy, Christians · What happens: shut up, be, tell, say, believe · To what, where: nice bloke, stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 21 «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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: «Shut up, Jesus was just a nice bloke who told stories,» says an older boy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 2 | Shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 says | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Shut | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bloke | punct |
| 5 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bloke | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bloke | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 bloke | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bloke | det |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bloke | amod |
| 10 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shut | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bloke | acl:relcl |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up in a quote | infinitive | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Jesus | a nice bloke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | a nice bloke | stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | a older boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 do Christians believe instead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 believe | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · do-support | Christians | instead property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Jesus was an angel who looked like a man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 angel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angel | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 angel | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angel | acl:relcl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jesus | a angel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | a angel | like a man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Jesus was a king who later became God
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 became | nsubj |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 became | advmod |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jesus | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | a king | God | late property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient god=Result |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Jesus is fully God and fully human
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 God | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 God | cop |
| 3 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 4 God | advmod |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 human | cc |
| 6 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 7 human | advmod |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 God | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jesus | God | fully property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Jesus not said here | fully property | tree rules |
Option 4
Jesus was God and only seemed human
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 God | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 God | cop |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seemed | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jesus God | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | Jesus God | human property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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