Test 6 · ★★ · Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Eli, who has no religion, says: "The story where God tells Abraham to kill his son is horrible." What is a respectful answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Eli, God, story · What happens: have, say, tell, kill, be · To what, where: religion, Abraham, son, respectful answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 4 «Abraham, Isaac and Jacob» 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: Eli, who has no religion, says: "The story where God tells Abraham to kill his son is horrible."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eli	Eli	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Eli	acl:relcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 religion	det
6	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eli	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 horrible	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 horrible	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 horrible	nsubj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 tells	advmod
14	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tells	nsubj
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 story	acl:relcl
16	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tells	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 kill	mark
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tells	xcomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kill	obj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 horrible	cop
22	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 horrible	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 horrible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Eli	no religion			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	Eli				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	God		Abraham		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent abraham=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	God not said here	God's son			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	the story			horrible property	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.

Sentence 2: What is a respectful answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a respectful answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a hard story; many read it as showing God does not want child sacrifice, since he stopped Abraham

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 read	punct
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 read	nsubj
8	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 story	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 showing	mark
11	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 read	advcl
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 want	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 want	advmod
15	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 showing	ccomp
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sacrifice	compound
17	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stopped	punct
19	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 stopped	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stopped	nsubj
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 read	conj
22	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a hard story	tree rules
2	read	past	many	story	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	show	gerund	many not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not want	present · do-support	God	child sacrifice	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sacrifice=Theme
5	stop	past	God	Abraham	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector abraham=Eventuality

Option 2

It's a funny story, you're taking it too seriously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taking	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 taking	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 taking	aux
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 story	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taking	obj
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 seriously	advmod
12	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	9 taking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a funny story					tree rules
2	take	present · progressive	you	story				seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, so Christians think hurting children is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fine	csubj
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurting	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Christians			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	gerund		children		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient
3	is	present	hurting		fine property	tree rules

Option 4

You're not allowed to say that about the Bible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 Bible	mark
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 Bible	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bible	det
10	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		You					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here					about the Bible	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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