Test 11 · ★ · What happens after we die? What our church teaches

Myth to check: «Christians believe dead people become ghosts who stay in their houses.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Myth, Christians, dead people, ghosts · What happens: check, believe, become, stay · To what, where: ghosts, houses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 72 «What happens after we die? What our church teaches» 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	Myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 check	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 check	mark
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 believe	punct
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 believe	nsubj
7	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 check	ccomp
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	nsubj
10	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 believe	ccomp
11	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	xcomp
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stay	nsubj
13	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ghosts	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 houses	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 houses	nmod:poss
16	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stay	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive	Myth			tree rules
2	believe in a quote	present	Christians			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become in a quote	present	dead people	ghosts		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	stay in a quote	present	ghosts		people's houses	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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

False, they believe the dead become animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 believe	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	nsubj
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
7	become	become	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	compound
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	they	the dead become animals					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus

Option 2

True; that is exactly what the Bible teaches about the dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 that	advcl
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bible	det
8	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 teaches	nsubj
9	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 dead	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dead	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 teaches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that					exactly property	tree rules
2	teach speech: other	present	the Bible					about the dead	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about dead=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

False; Christians believe the dead are with God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Christians	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 believe	nsubj
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dead	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 God	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 God	cop
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 God	case
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 believe	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	False Christians						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the dead					with God	tree rules

Option 4

True, but only for bad people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 people	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 people	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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