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Test 6 · ★★★ · Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people

Job's friends say his troubles must be his fault. In the story, who is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friends, his · What happens: say, be, trouble · To what, where: troubles, fault, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 75 «Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people» 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: Job's friends say his troubles must be his fault.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 friends	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Job	case
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 troubles	nmod:poss
6	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fault	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fault	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fault	nmod:poss
10	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 troubles	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Job's friends	his troubles and his fault					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic
2	is a	must	Job's friends not said here	his fault					tree rules
3	trouble		his = he						nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: In the story, who is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 right	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 right	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the story		right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Job himself, who admits that it was all his fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 Job	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 admits	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 admits	nsubj
5	admits	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Job	acl:relcl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 fault	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fault	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fault	cop
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fault	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fault	nmod:poss
11	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 admits	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	present	Job						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Job	his fault					tree rules

Option 2

The friends, because suffering always means sin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friends	det
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sin	nmod:poss
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 means	mark
5	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friends	acl:relcl
8	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	suffering	the friends not said here				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not the friends; God says they were wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 friends	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friends	det
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	ccomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrong	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	God						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	friends = friend					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Job's wife, who tells him to give up on God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Job	case
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wife	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tells	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 give	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 God	case
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Job's wife		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Job's wife not said here					on God	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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