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title: Before a big exam you feel panicky. Which psalm line is about calm t… — Psalms and Proverbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Before a big exam you feel panicky. Which psalm line is about calm trust? Test 11 of lesson 11 «Psalms and Proverbs» 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 · Psalms and Proverbs

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Before a big exam you feel panicky. Which psalm line is about calm trust?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, psalm line · **What happens:** feel, be · **To what, where:** calm trust

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This is test 11 of lesson 11 «Psalms and Proverbs» 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/11-psalms-and-proverbs/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Before a big exam you feel panicky.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:11-psalms-and-proverbs:t11:1
# text = Before a big exam you feel panicky.
1	Before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	exam	exam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	panicky	panicky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | you |  |  |  | before a big exam | panicky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 psalm line is about calm trust?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:11-psalms-and-proverbs:t11:2
# text = Which psalm line is about calm trust?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | psalm line | calm trust |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Be still, and know that I am God

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:11-psalms-and-proverbs:t11:o1:1
# text = Be still, and know that I am God
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | know *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | I | God |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pride goes before a fall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:11-psalms-and-proverbs:t11:o2:1
# text = Pride goes before a fall
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Pride |  |  | a fall |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Walk with the wise and become wise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:11-psalms-and-proverbs:t11:o3:1
# text = Walk with the wise and become wise
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the wise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Go to the ant, you sluggard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:11-psalms-and-proverbs:t11:o4:1
# text = Go to the ant, you sluggard
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the ant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ant=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sluggard** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | 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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