--- title: Ascertain the quantity of provisions furnished by a boy for the feed… — The miracles of Jesus · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the quantity of provisions furnished by a boy for the feeding of five thousand persons. Exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The miracles of Jesus» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/) / [The miracles of Jesus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · The miracles of Jesus Ascertain the quantity of provisions furnished by a boy for the feeding of five thousand persons. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, thousand persons · **What happens:** ascertain, furnish, feed · **To what, where:** quantity, provisions This is exam question 2 of lesson 16 «The miracles of Jesus» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/16-the-miracles-of-jesus/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:16-the-miracles-of-jesus:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the quantity of provisions furnished by a boy for the feeding of five thousand persons. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 quantity quantity NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 provisions provision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 furnished furnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 feeding feeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 compound _ _ 15 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the quantity of provisions | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic | | 2 | **furnish** | participle | | provisions *not said here* | | | | for the feeding of thousand persons | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for feeding=Recipient | | 3 | **feed** | | thousand persons | | | | | | nom feeding «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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 {#o1} Two loaves and five fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:16-the-miracles-of-jesus:e2:o1:1 # text = Two loaves and five fish 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 loaves loaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Five thousand loaves and fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:16-the-miracles-of-jesus:e2:o2:1 # text = Five thousand loaves and fish 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 loaves loaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Five loaves and two fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:16-the-miracles-of-jesus:e2:o3:1 # text = Five loaves and two fish 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 loaves loaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twelve loaves and seven fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:16-the-miracles-of-jesus:e2:o4:1 # text = Twelve loaves and seven fish 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 loaves loaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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