Test 11 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

Judge's follow-up: "How is Pentecost the opposite of Babel?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Pentecost

This is test 11 of lesson 3 «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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	Judge	Judge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 up	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Judge	case
3	follow	follow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Pentecost	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Pentecost	punct
8	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 Pentecost	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Pentecost	cop
10	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 up	appos
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 opposite	det
12	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Pentecost	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Babel	case
14	Babel	Babel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 opposite	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 Pentecost	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		Pentecost					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At Babel languages divided people; at Pentecost everyone understood the good news in their own language

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 Babel	case
2	Babel	Babel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 divided	obl
3	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 divided	nsubj
4	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 divided	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 understood	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
8	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	compound
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 understood	obl
10	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 divided	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 news	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 news	amod
13	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understood	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 language	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 language	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 language	amod
17	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 understood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide	past	languages	people		Babel			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	understand	past	languages not said here	the good news		everyone		in languages's own language	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus

Option 2

At Babel people spoke one language and at Pentecost no one spoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 Babel	case
2	Babel	Babel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 language	nummod
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spoke	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Pentecost	case
9	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spoke	obl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spoke	nsubj
12	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	people	one language		Babel			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	no one			Pentecost			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Pentecost is when the flood ended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pentecost	pentecost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 when	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 when	cop
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flood	det
5	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	nsubj
6	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 when	advcl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pentecost					when property	tree rules
2	end	past	the flood						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Both stories end with a tower falling down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nsubj
3	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 tower	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tower	det
6	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	obl
7	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 tower	acl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	present	both stories					with a tower	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with tower=Subeventuality
2	fall down	gerund	a tower not said here					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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