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title: A judge follows up: «Why does the book of Jonah end with a question?» — Daniel, Jonah and the prophets · tree and pragmatics
description: A judge follows up: «Why does the book of Jonah end with a question?» Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Daniel, Jonah and the prophets

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A judge follows up: «Why does the book of Jonah end with a question?»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** judge · **What happens:** follow up, do · **To what, where:** book

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets:t11:1
# text = A judge follows up: «Why does the book of Jonah end with a question?»
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow up** | present | a judge |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | a judge *not said here* | the book of Jonah end with a question |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So every reader must answer whether they care about others as God does

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets:t11:o1:1
# text = So every reader must answer whether they care about others as God does
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | must | every reader |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** | present | they |  |  |  |  | about others | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about other=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Because the last page was lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets:t11:o2:1
# text = Because the last page was lost
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · passive |  | the last page |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because Jonah did not know the answer either and simply stopped writing there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets:t11:o3:1
# text = Because Jonah did not know the answer either and simply stopped writing there
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	writing	write	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Jonah | the answer |  |  |  | either *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stop** | past | Jonah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **write** | gerund | Jonah *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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So that the story would be shorter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets:t11:o4:1
# text = So that the story would be shorter
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the story |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |

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**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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