Test 8 · ★ · Weddings, funerals and the people of the church

«Why'd anyone become a nun, sounds boring,» says your sister. What is a fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone, nun, sister · What happens: become, sound, say, be · To what, where: nun, fair answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 25 «Weddings, funerals and the people of the church» 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: «Why'd anyone become a nun, sounds boring,» says your sister.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 become	advmod
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 become	nsubj
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nun	det
7	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct
9	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nun	acl:relcl
10	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sounds	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 become	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	would	anyone	a nun		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sound in a quote	present	a nun not said here		boring property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	your sister			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: What is a fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

People become nuns so that they can avoid going to school as children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 become	xcomp
4	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 avoid	mark
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 so	fixed
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 avoid	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 avoid	aux
8	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 become	advcl
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 avoid	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 school	case
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	present	People	nuns			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	avoid	can	People				vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	gerund	People not said here		school	as children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 2

Nuns are forced to join when they are babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 join	mark
5	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forced	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 babies	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 babies	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 babies	cop
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	force	present · passive		Nuns	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	join	to-infinitive	Nuns not said here		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	Nuns = nun	babies	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some people want to give their whole life to prayer and service

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 life	amod
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 prayer	case
10	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 service	cc
12	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prayer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	some people						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	some people not said here	people's whole life	prayer and service				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to prayer=Recipient

Option 4

Nuns get paid very well by the Pope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 paid	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Pope	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pope	det
8	Pope	Pope	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive	the Pope	Nuns				well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

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/25-weddings-funerals-and-the-people-of-the-church/t8/