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title: Judge: «Why might Jesus have chosen fishermen rather than important… — Jesus' life and teaching · tree and pragmatics
description: Judge: «Why might Jesus have chosen fishermen rather than important people?» Test 9 · ★ of lesson 13 «Jesus' life and teaching» 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 9 · ★ · Jesus' life and teaching

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Judge: «Why might Jesus have chosen fishermen rather than important people?»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jesus · **What happens:** choose

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 13 «Jesus' life and teaching» 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/13-jesus-life-and-teaching/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:13-jesus-life-and-teaching:t9:1
# text = Judge: «Why might Jesus have chosen fishermen rather than important people?»
1	Judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
10	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** *in a quote* | might · perfect | Jesus |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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He chose ordinary people and changed their lives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:13-jesus-life-and-teaching:t9:o1:1
# text = He chose ordinary people and changed their lives
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | He | ordinary people |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | past | He *not said here* | people's lives |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fishermen were the richest men around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:13-jesus-life-and-teaching:t9:o2:1
# text = Fishermen were the richest men around
1	Fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fishermen | the richest men |  |  |  | around *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only fishermen could read the Scriptures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:13-jesus-life-and-teaching:t9:o3:1
# text = Only fishermen could read the Scriptures
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Scriptures	scripture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | could | fishermen | the Scriptures |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scripture=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Important people had all said no first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:13-jesus-life-and-teaching:t9:o4:1
# text = Important people had all said no first
1	Important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Important people | no first |  |  |  | all *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent first=Topic |

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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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