Test 2 · ★ · Sunday school, youth groups and charity
my mate says the sheep n goats story is about farming tips. is it
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, sheep, goats story · What happens: say, n, be · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 27 «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sheep | det |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 n | nsubj |
| 6 | n | n | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 story | compound |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tips | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tips | cop |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 tips | case |
| 11 | farming | farming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tips | compound |
| 12 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 n | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 it | cop |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | my mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | n | present | the sheep | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | goats story | about farming tips | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | story | tree rules |
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
No, it is about caring for people in need as caring for Jesus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 caring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caring | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 caring | aux |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 caring | mark |
| 6 | caring | care | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 need | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caring | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 caring | advmod |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 caring | mark |
| 12 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 need | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Jesus | case |
| 14 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 caring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present · progressive | it | for people | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | care not said to happen | gerund | for Jesus | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for jesus=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, Jesus was teaching how to keep animals apart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 teaching | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 teaching | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 teaching | aux |
| 5 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 keep | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 teaching | xcomp |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 8 keep | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · progressive | Jesus | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Jesus not said here | animals | apart property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it explains why sheep are better than goats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 explains | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 better | advmod |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 better | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | cop |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 explains | ccomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 goats | case |
| 10 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 better | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | sheep | than goats; good property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, it is about the first animals God made
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 animals | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 animals | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 animals | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animals | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | about the first animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | God | the first animals not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product |
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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