Test 11 · ★ · Moses and the Exodus

A judge follows up: «Can we prove from Egyptian records exactly how the Exodus happened?»

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: judge, we, Exodus · What happens: follow up, prove, happen · To what, where: Egyptian records · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 6 «Moses and the Exodus» 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follows	nsubj
3	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 follows	compound:prt
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 follows	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 prove	punct
7	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prove	aux
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 prove	nsubj
9	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 follows	parataxis
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 records	case
11	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 records	amod
12	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prove	obl
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	17 happened	advmod
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 happened	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Exodus	det
16	Exodus	Exodus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 happened	nsubj
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prove	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 prove	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 prove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	follow up	present	a judge			tree rules
2	prove in a quote	can	we	Egyptian records		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from record=Source
3	happen in a quote	past	the Exodus		exactly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, every detail is in the Egyptian records

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 records	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 detail	det
4	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 records	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 records	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 records	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 records	det
8	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 records	amod
9	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every detail			the Egyptian records			tree rules

Option 2

No, because Egypt never existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 existed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 existed	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 existed	mark
4	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 existed	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 existed	advmod
6	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past	Egypt						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, Pharaoh himself wrote a full diary of it that we can read today

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	nsubj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 Pharaoh	nmod:unmarked
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 diary	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 diary	amod
8	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 diary	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 read	mark
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 read	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 read	aux
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrote	advcl
15	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 read	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Pharaoh Pharaoh	a full diary of diary					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme
2	read	can	we				today		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, historians disagree about this, so it is disputed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 disagree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 disagree	punct
3	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disagree	nsubj
4	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 disagree	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 disputed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 disputed	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 disputed	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 disputed	aux:pass
11	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 disagree	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	historians					about this	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about this=Topic
2	dispute	present · passive		it					tree rules

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