Test 11 · ★★ · King David and King Solomon

A classmate with no faith says: «why build a fancy church, God's everywhere anyway?» A fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: classmate · What happens: say, build · To what, where: fancy church · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 9 «King David and King Solomon» 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: A classmate with no faith says: «why build a fancy church, God's everywhere anyway?»

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 says	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 faith	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 faith	det
5	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 classmate	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 build	advmod
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 church	det
12	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 church	amod
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 everywhere	punct
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 everywhere	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 God	case
17	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 build	advmod
18	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	17 everywhere	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a classmate with no faith						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	build in a quote	infinitive		a fancy church				everywhere property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product

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: A fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 answer	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answer	amod
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

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

A beautiful building honours God, though Christians agree God cannot be contained in it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 building	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 building	amod
3	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 honours	nsubj
4	honours	honour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 honours	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 agree	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 agree	mark
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 agree	nsubj
9	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 honours	conj
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 contained	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 contained	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 contained	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 contained	aux:pass
14	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 agree	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 contained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	honour	present	a beautiful building	God		tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	present	Christians			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not contain	can · passive		God	building	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in it=Location

Option 2

Because God lives only inside churches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 lives	mark
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 inside	advmod
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 lives	advmod
6	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	God	churches				inside property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because people cannot pray anywhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 pray	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pray	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pray	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pray	advmod
5	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 pray	advmod
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 anywhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pray	can	people					anywhere property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Because the Bible says all churches must be gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Bible	det
3	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 churches	det
6	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	obj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 gold	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 gold	cop
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 churches	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Bible	all churches and gold					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent church=Topic
2	is a	must	the Bible not said here	gold					tree rules

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