Test 7 · ★ · What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and he…
«You Christians think everyone else burns in hell, right?» says a classmate angrily. Fairest reply?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, everyone, classmate · What happens: think, burn, say · To what, where: hell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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: «You Christians think everyone else burns in hell, right?» says a classmate angrily.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 burns | nsubj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 everyone | advmod |
| 7 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hell | case |
| 9 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burns | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 right | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 burns | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 classmate | det |
| 16 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | obj |
| 17 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 14 says | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn in a quote | present | everyone | hell | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hell=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | a classmate | angrily property | 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: Fairest reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
No Christian has ever believed in hell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 Christian | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 believed | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 believed | advmod |
| 5 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hell | case |
| 7 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · perfect · passive | no Christian | hell | ever | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, all Christians believe exactly that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 believe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Christians | det |
| 4 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 that | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 believe | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | all Christians | that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
Option 3
Only people from other countries go there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 people | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 go | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 countries | case |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 countries | amod |
| 5 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | people from other countries | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Beliefs about hell differ widely; many trust God to be fair and merciful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 differ | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 hell | case |
| 3 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Beliefs | nmod |
| 4 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 4 differ | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 trust | punct |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trust | amod |
| 8 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 differ | parataxis |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 trust | appos |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fair | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fair | cop |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trust | acl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 merciful | cc |
| 14 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fair | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | Beliefs about hell | widely property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Beliefs about hell not said here | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Beliefs about hell not said here | tree rules |
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