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Test 6 · Vows, oaths and promises in faith

The vicar asks, "Should Israel have kept the Gibeonite treaty?" Which answer gives reasons?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vicar, answer · What happens: ask, keep, give · To what, where: Israel, reasons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 88 «Vows, oaths and promises in faith» 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 vicar asks, "Should Israel have kept the Gibeonite treaty?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vicar	det
2	vicar	vicar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
6	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
7	Israel	Israel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 asks	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 treaty	det
11	Gibeonite	Gibeonite	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 treaty	compound
12	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the vicar						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep in a quote	should · perfect · passive		Israel					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme treaty=Attribute

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: Which answer gives reasons?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	which answer	reasons					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme

The options

Option 1

No, because the Bible says they were wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 says	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bible	det
5	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wrong	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Bible						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					wrong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It doesn't matter, it was a long time ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 time	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	obl:unmarked
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 time	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past	it	a long time				ago property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's an open question: trickery usually cancels a promise, yet keeping your word can still be noble

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 question	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 cancels	punct
7	trickery	trickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cancels	nsubj
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 cancels	advmod
9	cancels	cancel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 promise	det
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cancels	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 noble	punct
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 noble	cc
14	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 noble	csubj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 word	nmod:poss
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keeping	obj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 noble	aux
18	still	still	ADV	_	20 noble	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 noble	cop
20	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a open question					tree rules
2	cancel	present	trickery	a promise				usually property	tree rules
3	keep	gerund		your word					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	is	can	keeping				still	noble property	tree rules
5	word		your						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yes, because any promise made by anyone must always be kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 promise	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 promise	det
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 promise	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 made	obl:agent
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kept	aux
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 kept	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 kept	aux:pass
12	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		any promise not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	keep	must · passive		any promise				always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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