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Test 8 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

"We're the best class, we'll build the biggest snow fort ever and everyone will know OUR names!" They end up arguing and quit. Which story fits?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: We, everyone, OUR, names, story · What happens: be, build, know, name, end up, argue · To what, where: best class, biggest snow fort, names

This is test 8 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: "We're the best class, we'll build the biggest snow fort ever and everyone will know OUR names!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 class	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 class	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 class	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 class	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 build	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 build	aux
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fort	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 fort	amod
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fort	compound
14	fort	fort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
15	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 build	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 know	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 build	conj
20	OUR	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 names	nmod:poss
21	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 know	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	We	the best class					tree rules
2	build in a quote	future	we	the biggest snow fort			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fort=Product
3	know in a quote	future	everyone	OUR names					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
4	name in a quote		OUR						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: They end up arguing and quit.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 end	nsubj
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 end	compound:prt
4	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 end	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 quit	cc
6	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 end	conj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	names = name						tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	names = name not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	quit	infinitive	names = name not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Which story fits?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fits	nsubj
3	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	which story						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Noah and the ark: obeying God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 obeying	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ark	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ark	det
4	ark	ark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Noah	conj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 obeying	punct
6	obeying	obey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 obeying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	gerund	Noah and the ark	God					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme

Option 2

Creation: God rested on the seventh day after all his hard work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rested	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Creation	punct
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rested	nsubj
4	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rested	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	13 work	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 work	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 work	nmod:poss
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 work	amod
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past	God	Creation			after God's hard work; day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work		God						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Adam and Eve hiding from God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Eve	cc
3	Eve	Eve	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Adam	conj
4	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 God	case
6	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	Adam and Eve					from God	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from god=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Tower of Babel: pride and showing off led to division

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tower	det
2	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 led	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Babel	case
4	Babel	Babel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tower	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 pride	punct
6	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 led	nsubj:pass
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 showing	cc
8	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pride	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 showing	compound:prt
10	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 division	case
12	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 led	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lead	participle · passive		the Tower of Babel		division			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to division=Destination

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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