Test 6 · What other faiths and non-religious people believe
«Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey. What's the most accurate answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jews, boy, accurate answer · What happens: believe, ask, be · To what, where: heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 73 «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» 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: «Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asks | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 heaven | case |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nah | cc |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 heaven | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asks | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Jersey | case |
| 15 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Jersey | amod |
| 16 | Jersey | Jersey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Jews | heaven | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | a boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: What's the most accurate answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 accurate | advmod |
| 5 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | amod |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the accurate answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, Jews believe in reincarnation as cows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 3 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reincarnation | case |
| 6 | reincarnation | reincarnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 cows | case |
| 8 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reincarnation | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Jews | reincarnation as cows | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yes, exactly the same heaven as Christians
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 heaven | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 heaven | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heaven | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heaven | amod |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 Christians | case |
| 8 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 heaven | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No Jew believes anything about after death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 Jew | det |
| 2 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 believes | nsubj |
| 3 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 believes | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 anything | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anything | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | no Jew | anything | after death | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Many believe in the World to Come, but focus on this life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 World | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 World | det |
| 5 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 Come | mark |
| 7 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 focus | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 focus | cc |
| 10 | focus | focus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 life | det |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 focus | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Many | the World | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Many not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe/t6/