Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Religion ethics / Baptism, communion and confirmation / t7

Test 7 · ★★ · Baptism, communion and confirmation

An olympiad judge asks: «Why might someone want to wait until they're older to be confirmed?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: olympiad judge, someone, they · What happens: ask, want, wait, be, confirm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: An olympiad judge asks: «Why might someone want to wait until they're older to be confirmed?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 judge	det
2	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	compound
3	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
7	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 want	advmod
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 wait	mark
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 older	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 older	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 older	cop
16	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 wait	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	19 confirmed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 confirmed	aux:pass
19	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 older	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a olympiad judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	might	someone						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wait not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	someone not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	they					old property	tree rules
5	confirm in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	they not said here						vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»

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

Because confirmation is only for adults by law in every country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 adults	mark
2	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adults	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 adults	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 adults	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 law	case
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adults	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 law	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	confirmation					for adults; by law in every country	tree rules

Option 2

Because older people get bigger presents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 get	mark
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 presents	amod
6	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	older people	bigger presents					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer present=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So the promise is truly their own, made with understanding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 own	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 promise	det
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 own	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 own	cop
5	truly	truly	ADV	_	7 own	advmod
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 own	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 understanding	case
11	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the promise					own, truly property	tree rules
2	make	participle	the promise not said here					with understanding	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because the bishop is too busy for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 busy	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bishop	det
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 busy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bishop					for children; busy property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/t7/