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title: Teacher: "Paul's road to Damascus came, er, before Jesus was born —… — Olympiad: Bible stories in order and f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher: "Paul's road to Damascus came, er, before Jesus was born — no wait, after Pentecost." Which is true? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 102 «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many fai…

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Teacher: "Paul's road to Damascus came, er, before Jesus was born — no wait, after Pentecost." Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** come, bear, be · **To what, where:** wait, Jesus

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 102 «Olympiad: Bible stories in order and festivals of many faiths ★★★» 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/102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher: "Paul's road to Damascus came, er, before Jesus was born — no wait, after Pentecost."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths:t10:1
# text = Teacher: "Paul's road to Damascus came, er, before Jesus was born — no wait, after Pentecost."
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Teacher and Paul's road to Damascus | no wait |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths:t10:2
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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After Pentecost, as she said last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths:t10:o1:1
# text = After Pentecost, as she said last
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Pentecost |  |  |  | after Pentecost | last *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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On Christmas Day, the day Jesus was born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths:t10:o2:1
# text = On Christmas Day, the day Jesus was born
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive | the day *not said here* | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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On the very same day as Noah's flood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths:t10:o3:1
# text = On the very same day as Noah's flood
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flood** |  | Noah |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Before Jesus was born, as she said first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:102-olympiad-bible-stories-in-order-and-festivals-of-many-faiths:t10:o4:1
# text = Before Jesus was born, as she said first
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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