Test 8 · Churches of the English-speaking world I
Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool. Why not as a baby?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: baptise · To what, where: Baptist friend, 13
This is test 8 of lesson 28 «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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: Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Baptist | baptist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baptised | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 baptised | aux:pass |
| 5 | baptised | baptise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 13 | case |
| 7 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 baptised | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pool | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pool | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pool | amod |
| 11 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baptised | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 baptised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | baptise | past · passive | Your Baptist friend | 13 | in a big pool | 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.
Sentence 2: Why not as a baby?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 baby | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 baby | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | advcl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Baptists think water is bad for babies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baptists | baptist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bad | cop |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 babies | case |
| 7 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bad | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Baptists | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | water | for babies; bad property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Baptists baptise people old enough to choose for themselves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baptists | baptist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 baptise | nsubj |
| 2 | baptise | baptise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 baptise | obj |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 baptise | xcomp |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 choose | mark |
| 7 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 old | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 themselves | case |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 choose | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | baptise | present | Baptists | people | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | Baptists not said here | for Baptists = baptist | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary |
Option 3
Babies are not allowed in Baptist churches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 churches | case |
| 6 | Baptist | Baptist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 churches | compound |
| 7 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Babies | Baptist churches | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Baptists wait until people can swim well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baptists | baptist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 swim | mark |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swim | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 swim | aux |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wait | advcl |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 swim | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | Baptists | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim | can | people | well property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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