Test 7 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

A classmate with no religion asks: «why was Jonathan such a good friend?»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: classmate, Jonathan · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: good friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 classmate	det
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 religion	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 religion	det
5	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 classmate	nmod
6	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 friend	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 friend	advmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 friend	cop
11	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 friend	nsubj
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 friend	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 friend	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 friend	amod
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 friend	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 friend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a classmate with no religion						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past	Jonathan	such good friend					tree rules

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

He fought Goliath for David

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 David	case
5	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	He	Goliath				for David	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goliath=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He protected David from his own father's jealousy, even at a cost

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 protected	nsubj
2	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 protected	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	9 jealousy	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 father	amod
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jealousy	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protected	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cost	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 cost	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 cost	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cost	det
14	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protected	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	past	He		David			from David's own father's jealousy	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent david=Beneficiary from jealousy=Theme

Option 3

He was paid by Samuel to help

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	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Samuel	case
5	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 paid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive	Samuel	He					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset
2	help	to-infinitive	Samuel not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He gave David his father's crown at once and made him king that same day

The tree, 16 words

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crown	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 father	case
7	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 gave	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	nmod:poss
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 same	nsubj
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	appos
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	He	David's father's crown	David		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent david=Recipient crown=Theme at once=Asset
2	make	past	He not said here	David		day	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
3	crown		David's father				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/t7/