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Test 6 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

«Saul tried to kill him, David should've got him back, easy». What did David actually do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Saul, David · What happens: try, kill, get back, do · To what, where: Saul

This is test 6 of lesson 8 «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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: «Saul tried to kill him, David should've got him back, easy».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct
2	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 kill	mark
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct
8	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 got	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 got	aux
10	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 got	aux
11	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 tried	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
15	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	past	Saul						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	kill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Saul not said here	Saul					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	get back in a quote	should · perfect	David	Saul					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 did David actually do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support						actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

He hid in a cave until Saul died of old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
7	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 age	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 age	amod
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He			a cave			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location
2	die	past	Saul				of old age		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of age=Causer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He killed Saul with a stone from his sling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sling	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sling	nmod:poss
9	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	He	Saul		Saul's sling		with a stone	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent saul=Theme from sling=Initial_Location

Option 3

He told Jonathan to do it for him in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 secret	case
10	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		Jonathan				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jonathan=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it		secret		for Jonathan	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He spared Saul when he had the chance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spared	nsubj
2	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Saul	Saul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spared	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 had	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spared	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chance	det
8	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	past	He	Saul					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent saul=Asset
2	have	past	Saul	the chance					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient

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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