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Test 8 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

«the giant was just a big man lol, why was everyone so scared?» What does the story show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: be, do · To what, where: big man, everyone

This is test 8 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: «the giant was just a big man lol, why was everyone so scared?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 man	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 man	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 everyone	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 everyone	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 everyone	cop
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 man	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 scared	advmod
15	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 everyone	amod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the giant	a big man					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past	the giant not said here	everyone					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.

Sentence 2: What does the story show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 show	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	compound
5	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The king had banned fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banned	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 banned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past · perfect · passive		the king					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fear can freeze a whole crowd until one person trusts and acts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowd	amod
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 trusts	mark
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 person	nummod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trusts	nsubj
10	trusts	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 acts	cc
12	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trusts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	can	Fear	a whole crowd					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient crowd=Result
2	trust	present	one person						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	act	present	one person not said here						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The soldiers were all asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soldiers					all, asleep property	tree rules

Option 4

Goliath had magic powers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 powers	amod
4	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Goliath	magic powers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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