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Test 9 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

Teacher asks: "Why do you think the dove came back the first time?" Which answer fits the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Teacher, you, dove, answer · What happens: ask, think, come back, fit · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Teacher asks: "Why do you think the dove came back the first time?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 think	advmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dove	det
10	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 think	ccomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Teacher						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come back in a quote	past	the dove				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Which answer fits the story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fits	nsubj
3	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fits	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fits	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The dove did not like flying so far over water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dove	det
2	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 like	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 flying	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the dove						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fly not said to happen	gerund	the dove not said here			water		far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Location

Option 2

Noah had called it back home for its dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 home	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · perfect · passive		Noah				for its dinner; home property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme it=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There was still no dry land to rest on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 land	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 land	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no dry land			there	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rest on	to-infinitive	no dry land not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The dove had lost the olive leaf on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dove	det
2	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
6	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaf	compound
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		the dove		the way			tree rules

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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