Test 10 · ★★ · Baptism, communion and confirmation

A judge follows up: «Why use ordinary things like water and bread for something holy?»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge · What happens: follow up, use · To what, where: ordinary things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Baptism, communion and confirmation» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follows	nsubj
3	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 follows	compound:prt
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 follows	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
7	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 use	advmod
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 follows	parataxis
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 use	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 things	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bread	cc
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 something	case
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 use	obl
17	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 something	amod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow up	present	a judge						tree rules
2	use in a quote	infinitive		ordinary things				like water and bread; for something	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for something=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Everyday things can become visible signs of God's grace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyday	everyday	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signs	amod
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 grace	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 grace	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 God	case
10	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 signs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	Everyday things	visible signs of God's grace					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sign			God's grace					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ordinary things are used so nobody notices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 notices	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 notices	nsubj
7	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		Ordinary things					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	notice	present	nobody						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Holy things must always be expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 expensive	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 expensive	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 expensive	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 expensive	cop
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Holy things					always, expensive property	tree rules

Option 4

Water and bread were the only food in church, so they had to use them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bread	cc
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Water	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 church	case
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 food	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 food	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 use	mark
15	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Water and bread	the only food	church	tree rules
2	have	past	Water			tree rules
3	use	to-infinitive	Water not said here	Water		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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