Test 2 · Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer
Priya, a Hindu friend visiting church, whispers: «Why's everyone saying amen?» Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hindu friend, Priya, everyone · What happens: visit, whisper, say · To what, where: church, amen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 of lesson 23 «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» 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: Priya, a Hindu friend visiting church, whispers: «Why's everyone saying amen?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 whispers | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | Hindu | hindu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Priya | appos |
| 6 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 friend | acl |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visiting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Priya | punct |
| 9 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispers | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saying | advmod |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 saying | aux |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 saying | nsubj |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 whispers | parataxis |
| 16 | amen | amen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saying | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | a Hindu friend not said here | church | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: ask | present | Priya | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | everyone | amen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent amen=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: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
It is the name of the church's saint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 saint | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saint | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 church | case |
| 9 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the name | of the church's saint | tree rules |
Option 2
It means the service is finished now and people can go home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 service | det |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 finished | aux:pass |
| 6 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 finished | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 means | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | finish | present · passive | the service | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | can | people | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It means so be it; they agree with the prayer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 it | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 it | cop |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 prayer | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prayer | det |
| 11 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agree | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | they | with the prayer | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with prayer=Co-Agent |
Option 4
It means hello in the Bible's language
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 language | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bible | det |
| 6 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 language | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Bible | case |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | hello | in the Bible's language | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot hello=Theme in language=Attribute |
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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