Test 3 · ★ · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief
Tom says: "I'm not sure if God exists, nobody can really know." What is Tom?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, God, nobody · What happens: say, not be, exist, know, be · To what, where: Tom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 33 «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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: Tom says: "I'm not sure if God exists, nobody can really know."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sure | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 exists | mark |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 exists | nsubj |
| 11 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exists | punct |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Tom | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exist a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | God | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | can | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Tom?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Tom | cop |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tom | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A Buddhist monk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 monk | det |
| 2 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 monk | amod |
| 3 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An atheist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 atheist | det |
| 2 | atheist | atheist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
An agnostic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 agnostic | det |
| 2 | agnostic | agnostic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A humanist priest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 priest | det |
| 2 | humanist | humanist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 priest | compound |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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