Test 11 · ★ · The environment

Which is the best summary of Christian stewardship?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: best summary

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 47 «The environment» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 summary	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 summary	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 summary	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 summary	amod
5	summary	summary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stewardship	case
7	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stewardship	amod
8	stewardship	stewardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summary	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 summary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best summary				of Christian stewardship	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only priests are asked to care for the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 priests	advmod
2	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asked	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	aux:pass
4	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 care	mark
6	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 care	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		priests					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	care not said to happen	to-infinitive	priests not said here					for the earth	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for earth=Theme

Option 2

The earth belongs to people to use up as they wish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	nsubj
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 belongs	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 use	mark
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 belongs	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 use	compound:prt
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 wish	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wish	nsubj
11	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 use	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	belong	present	the earth	to people	tree rules
2	use up	to-infinitive	the earth not said here		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	present	people		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

The earth does not matter at all, because heaven matters more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 matter	advmod
5	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 matter	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 matters	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 matters	mark
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 matters	nsubj
11	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	parataxis
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 matters	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	the earth			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	matter	present	heaven						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The earth is God's gift and people must care for it well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gift	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gift	cop
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gift	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 God	case
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 care	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gift	conj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 care	aux
10	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 care	obl
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 care	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the earth	God's gift and people					tree rules
2	care	must	God's gift and people					for earth; well property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

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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