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Test 7 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

A classmate says: "My uncle says Christians all believe the flood covered the whole world." What is more accurate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: classmate, uncle, flood · What happens: say, believe, cover, be · To what, where: Christians, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: A classmate says: "My uncle says Christians all believe the flood covered the whole world."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 classmate	det
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 uncle	nmod:poss
7	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
9	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 says	obj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 believe	advmod
11	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flood	det
13	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	nsubj
14	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 believe	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 world	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 world	amod
17	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a classmate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	My uncle	Christians					tree rules
3	believe in a quote	present						all property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	cover in a quote	past	the flood	the whole world					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Destination

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 more accurate?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 accurate	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accurate	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 accurate	advmod
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 accurate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						accurate property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Christians think it covered only Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	ccomp
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 Egypt	advmod
6	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Christians						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cover	past	it	Egypt					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some do, others read it as a local flood or a teaching story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 do	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 read	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 flood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flood	det
9	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flood	amod
10	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 story	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 story	det
13	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 story	compound
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Some						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	past	others	it				as a local flood or a teaching story	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus as flood=Attribute

Option 3

No Christian has ever believed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 Christian	det
2	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 believed	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 believed	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 believed	advmod
5	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present · perfect · passive		no Christian			ever		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, every Christian believes that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 believes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 Christian	det
4	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 believes	nsubj
5	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 believes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	every Christian	that					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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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