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Test 1 · ★ · What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and he…

«prayed for a new bike and got nothing, so prayer's fake innit» says your mate. What would a Christian say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Christian · What happens: pray, get, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» 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: «prayed for a new bike and got nothing, so prayer's fake innit» says your mate.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 prayed	punct
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 bike	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bike	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bike	amod
6	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prayed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	17 says	advmod
12	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 innit	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 prayer	case
14	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 innit	amod
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mate	nmod:poss
19	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray in a quote	past						for a new bike	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bike=Theme
2	get in a quote	past		nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 would a Christian say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Christian	det
4	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a Christian						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

God hears, but the answer may be no or wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 no	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 no	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 no	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 no	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 no	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 hears	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 wait	cc
11	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 no	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	God	no					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer no=Stimulus
2	wait	infinitive	God not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Bikes are sinful so God got angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sinful	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sinful	cop
3	sinful	sinful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sinful	advcl
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bikes					sinful property	tree rules
2	get	past	God					angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

God only listens to adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 listens	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 listens	advmod
3	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	present	God					to adults	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to adult=Theme

Option 4

He didn't pray loud enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pray	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pray	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pray	advmod
4	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pray	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 pray	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pray	past · do-support	He					enough, loud property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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