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Test 10 · ★★★ · Life and death: putting it all together

Ellie says life is precious «even for a hamster», and the vicar replies, formally, «All creatures great and small are held in God's regard.» What do they agree on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ellie, life, vicar, God, creatures · What happens: say, be, reply, hold, regard, agree · To what, where: creatures, regard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Life and death: putting it all together» 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: Ellie says life is precious «even for a hamster», and the vicar replies, formally, «All creatures great and small are held in God's regard.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 precious	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 precious	cop
5	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 hamster	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 hamster	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hamster	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hamster	det
10	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 precious	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 hamster	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 replies	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 replies	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vicar	det
15	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replies	nsubj
16	replies	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 formally	punct
18	formally	formally	ADV	_	16 replies	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
21	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 creatures	det
22	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 held	nsubj:pass
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creatures	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 small	cc
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 great	conj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 held	aux:pass
27	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 replies	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 regard	case
29	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 regard	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 God	case
31	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ellie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	life					precious property	tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	present	the vicar					formally property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold in a quote	present · passive		all creatures		God's regard			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in regard=Location
5	regard in a quote		God						nom regard «cognition transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What do they agree on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 agree	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 agree	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 agree	nsubj
4	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 agree	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present · do-support	creatures = creature						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Every living thing deserves care

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 thing	det
2	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	compound
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deserves	nsubj
4	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	every living thing	care					tree rules

Option 2

Hamsters are more important than people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 important	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 important	advmod
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 important	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hamsters					than people; important property	tree rules

Option 3

Only big animals matter to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 animals	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
4	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 God	case
6	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	big animals		God				vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to god=Experiencer

Option 4

Pets must be taken to church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 taken	aux:pass
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 church	case
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	must · passive		Pets		church			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to church=Destination

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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