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title: A Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot… — Easter and Pentecost · tree and pragmatics
description: A Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot. What is true? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 19 «Easter and Pentecost» 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 7 · ★ · Easter and Pentecost

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A Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jewish friend, Pentecost · **What happens:** say, sound, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 19 «Easter and Pentecost» 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/19-easter-and-pentecost/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:t7:1
# text = A Jewish friend says Pentecost sounds like their festival of Shavuot.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Shavuot	Shavuot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Jewish friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sound** | present | Pentecost |  |  |  |  | like their festival of Shavuot | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:t7:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Pentecost happened at the Jewish feast fifty days after Passover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:t7:o1:1
# text = Pentecost happened at the Jewish feast fifty days after Passover
1	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Passover	Passover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | Pentecost |  |  | the Jewish feast | after Passover; day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at feast=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pentecost has nothing to do with any Jewish feast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:t7:o2:1
# text = Pentecost has nothing to do with any Jewish feast
1	Pentecost	pentecost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Pentecost | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Pentecost *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with any Jewish feast | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Pentecost was invented hundreds of years later by the Church in Rome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:t7:o3:1
# text = Pentecost was invented hundreds of years later by the Church in Rome
1	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive | the Church in Rome | Pentecost |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pentecost is the Christian name for Hanukkah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:t7:o4:1
# text = Pentecost is the Christian name for Hanukkah
1	Pentecost	pentecost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hanukkah	Hanukkah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pentecost | the Christian name |  |  |  | for Hanukkah | 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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