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# Test 1 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

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«Kipling made up Solomon and Balkis for his book» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kipling · **What happens:** make up, be · **To what, where:** Solomon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» 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/101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn:t1:1
# text = «Kipling made up Solomon and Balkis for his book» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	csubj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** *in a quote* | past | Kipling | Solomon and Balkis |  |  |  | for Kipling's book | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme solomon=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Kipling made up both of them, and nobody had heard of them before 1902

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn:t1:o1:1
# text = Kipling made up both of them, and nobody had heard of them before 1902
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | Kipling | both |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme both=Pivot |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | nobody |  |  |  | before 1902 | of them *= they* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are from a Greek play written by Homer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn:t1:o2:1
# text = They are from a Greek play written by Homer
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  | a Greek play |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | a Greek play *not said here* |  |  |  | by Homer | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Solomon is from Kipling but Balkis is from a film

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn:t1:o3:1
# text = Solomon is from Kipling but Balkis is from a film
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Balkis	Balkis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Kipling |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Solomon but Balkis |  |  | a film |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Kipling took them from much older stories in the Bible, the Qur'an and legends

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:101-solomon-and-the-queen-of-sheba-one-story-in-many-books-and-the-legends-of-the-ring-and-the-jinn:t1:o4:1
# text = Kipling took them from much older stories in the Bible, the Qur'an and legends
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Qur'an	Qur'an	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Kipling | them *= they* |  | older stories |  | in the Bible and the Qur'an and legends | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from story=Initial\_Location |

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