Test 10 · ★ · Joseph and his brothers
Olympiad judge: "Joseph had power over his brothers. Why was forgiving them wiser than revenge?"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Joseph · What happens: have, forgive · To what, where: power
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 5 «Joseph and his brothers» 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: Olympiad judge: "Joseph had power over his brothers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olympiad | olympiad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 judge | compound |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 5 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 judge | acl:relcl |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 judge | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Joseph | power | over Joseph's brothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
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: Why was forgiving them wiser than revenge?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 forgiving | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgiving | aux |
| 3 | forgiving | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 wiser | csubj |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wiser | nsubj |
| 5 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 revenge | case |
| 7 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiser | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiser | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiser | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past · progressive | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Forgiveness restored the family; revenge would have broken it for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 restored | nsubj |
| 2 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 family | det |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 restored | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
| 6 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 broken | aux |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 restored | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broken | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 good | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 broken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past | Forgiveness | the family | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent family=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | would · perfect · passive | revenge | for good | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient it=Result |
Option 2
Because they had not done anything wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 done | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anything | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · perfect | they | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
Option 3
Because revenge is not allowed in Egypt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 allowed | mark |
| 2 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Egypt | case |
| 7 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | revenge | Egypt | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Because he was too busy to punish them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 busy | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 busy | advmod |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 punish | mark |
| 7 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 busy | csubj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 punish | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | punish | to-infinitive | them = they | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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