Exam question 2 · Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside
Identify the practice of prayer taught by Ignatius of Loyola, whereby the day is reviewed with thanksgiving and the noting of faults.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, teach, review, practice · To what, where: practice, prayer, day
This is exam question 2 of lesson 98 «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 practice | det |
| 3 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prayer | case |
| 5 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 practice | nmod |
| 6 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 prayer | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Ignatius | case |
| 8 | Ignatius | Ignatius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taught | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Loyola | case |
| 10 | Loyola | Loyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ignatius | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reviewed | punct |
| 12 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 reviewed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reviewed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 reviewed | aux:pass |
| 16 | reviewed | review | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thanksgiving | case |
| 18 | thanksgiving | thanksgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reviewed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 noting | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 noting | det |
| 21 | noting | noting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thanksgiving | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 faults | case |
| 23 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 noting | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the practice of prayer | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent practice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | participle | prayer not said here | by Ignatius of Loyola | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | review | present · passive | the day | with thanksgiving and the noting of faults; whereby property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | practice | prayer | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 · ← Mova's choice
The Litany
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Litany | det |
| 2 | Litany | Litany | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Rosary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rosary | det |
| 2 | Rosary | Rosary | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Examen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Examen | det |
| 2 | Examen | Examen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Angelus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Angelus | det |
| 2 | Angelus | Angelus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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