Exam question 3 · Life and death: putting it all together

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning differing beliefs regarding death.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, differ, regard · To what, where: response, beliefs

This is exam question 3 of lesson 80 «Life and death: putting it all together» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 concerning	xcomp
11	beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 differing	obj
12	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 death	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beliefs	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here			tree rules
4	differ	gerund	the established facts not said here	beliefs	regard death	tree rules
5	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

All persons are obliged to hold a single belief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obliged	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 belief	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 belief	amod
9	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		all persons					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	hold	to-infinitive		a single belief					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Theme

Option 2

Beliefs differing from one's own ought to be ridiculed in public, so that error may be exposed and corrected

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ridiculed	nsubj:pass
2	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Beliefs	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 own	case
4	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 one	case
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 differing	obl
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 ridiculed	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	10 ridiculed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 ridiculed	aux:pass
10	ridiculed	ridicule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 public	case
12	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ridiculed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exposed	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 exposed	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exposed	nsubj:pass
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 exposed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 exposed	aux:pass
19	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ridiculed	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 corrected	cc
21	corrected	correct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 exposed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	differ	gerund	Beliefs not said here			from one's own	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from own=Co-Theme
2	ridicule	ought · passive		Beliefs	public		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	expose	may · passive		error			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	correct speech: disagree	participle					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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

Persons of differing faiths and of none may hold their views and nonetheless respect one another

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hold	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 faiths	case
3	differing	differ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 faiths	amod
4	faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Persons	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 none	cc
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 none	case
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 faiths	conj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hold	aux
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 views	nmod:poss
11	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hold	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 respect	cc
13	nonetheless	nonetheless	ADV	_	14 respect	advmod
14	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hold	conj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 respect	obj
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	differ	gerund				vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	may	Persons of differing faiths	Persons's views		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme
3	respect	infinitive	Persons of differing faiths not said here	one	nonetheless property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	view		Persons = person			nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Beliefs concerning death are of no consequence to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beliefs	belief	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 consequence	nsubj
2	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 death	amod
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beliefs	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 consequence	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 consequence	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 consequence	det
7	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 consequence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Beliefs and concerning death					of no consequence; to anyone	tree rules

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