Test 11 · ★★ · Souls, ghosts and stories

Myth to check: «When good people die, they become angels with wings.»

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: good people, people · What happens: check, die, become · To what, where: angels

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 check	mark
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Myth	acl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 die	punct
6	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 die	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 die	nsubj
9	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Myth	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 become	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 become	nsubj
12	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 die	conj
13	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 wings	case
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 angels	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Myth	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Myth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	die in a quote	present	good people		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	become in a quote	present	people	angels with wings	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

True, but only for children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

True; the Bible says so plainly, many times, about good people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 times	amod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bible	det
4	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	conj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 plainly	advmod
7	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	5 says	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 times	punct
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 times	amod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 times	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Bible					plainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

False; they become ghosts instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	they	ghosts				false, instead property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

False in Christian teaching; angels are different beings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 angels	amod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 teaching	case
3	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teaching	amod
4	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 False	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
6	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beings	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 beings	cop
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beings	amod
9	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	False angels	different beings					tree rules

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