Exam question 3 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

State the relationship of Ruth the Moabitess to King David.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state · To what, where: relationship, David

This is exam question 3 of lesson 8 «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 relationship	det
3	relationship	relationship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ruth	case
5	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 relationship	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moabitess	det
7	Moabitess	Moabitess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ruth	appos
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 David	case
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 David	nmod:desc
10	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 relationship	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the relationship of Ruth	David King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent relationship=Topic to david=Recipient

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

Great-great-grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmother	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Great	punct
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmother	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 great	punct
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Great-grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grandmother	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Great	punct
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Paternal grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paternal	Paternal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grandmother	compound
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Maternal grandmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maternal	maternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grandmother	amod
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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.

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