Exam question 3 · Souls, ghosts and stories

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning Christian teaching on angels.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, Christian teaching

This is exam question 3 of lesson 74 «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 teaching	amod
11	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 angels	case
13	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	Christian teaching	on angels	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus teaching=Experiencer

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 right answer

Angels are beings distinct from humans, and the departed do not become angels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 distinct	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 distinct	cop
3	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 distinct	nsubj
4	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 humans	case
6	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 distinct	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 become	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 become	det
10	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 the	acl
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 become	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 become	advmod
13	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 distinct	conj
14	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Angels		from humans; distinct property	tree rules
2	depart	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not become	present · do-support	Angels not said here	angels		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Only deceased children are transformed into angels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 deceased	advmod
2	deceased	decease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 transformed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 transformed	aux:pass
5	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 deceased	ccomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 angels	case
7	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 transformed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decease	past							tree rules
2	transform	present · passive		children				into angels result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into angel=Result

Option 3

Angels are the ghosts of the departed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ghosts	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ghosts	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ghosts	det
4	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 departed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 departed	det
7	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ghosts	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Angels	the ghosts					tree rules
2	depart	participle		the ghosts not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

All persons become angels upon their death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	xcomp
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 death	nmod:poss
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	all persons	angels				upon persons's death	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	die		persons = person						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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