Exam question 2 · Life is precious: wonder and gratitude

Identify the principal purpose of the harvest festival as observed in Christian churches.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, harvest festival · What happens: identify, observe, purpose · To what, where: principal purpose, Christian churches

This is exam question 2 of lesson 54 «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 festival	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 festival	det
7	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 festival	compound
8	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 observed	mark
10	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 churches	case
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 churches	amod
13	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 observed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose of the harvest festival		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	observe	participle	you not said here		Christian churches	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	purpose		the harvest festival			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

The sale of agricultural produce for the benefit of the clergy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sale	det
2	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 produce	case
4	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 produce	amod
5	produce	produce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sale	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 benefit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 benefit	det
8	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sale	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 clergy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clergy	det
11	clergy	clergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 benefit	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The commemoration of the founding of the parish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 commemoration	det
2	commemoration	commemoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 founding	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 founding	det
5	founding	founding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commemoration	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 parish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parish	det
8	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 founding	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commemorate			the founding of the parish					nom commemoration «event transitive»: of=patient
2	found			the parish					nom founding «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The disposal of foodstuffs which have passed their date of use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 disposal	det
2	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 foodstuffs	case
4	foodstuffs	foodstuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disposal	nmod
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 passed	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 foodstuffs	acl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 date	nmod:poss
9	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 use	case
11	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 date	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present · perfect · passive		foodstuffs					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient date=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The giving of thanks for food and the sharing of it with those in want

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giving	det
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 thanks	case
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanks	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sharing	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sharing	det
9	sharing	sharing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanks	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sharing	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 those	case
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 giving	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 want	case
15	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 those	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund						of thanks for food and the sharing of sharing; with those	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/54-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude/e2/