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# Exam question 3 · What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit

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Select the response consistent with Christian teaching concerning the nature of Jesus.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Christian teaching · **What happens:** select, concern · **To what, where:** response, nature

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 21 «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e3:1
# text = Select the response consistent with Christian teaching concerning the nature of Jesus.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | Christian teaching *not said here* | the nature of Jesus |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nature=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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That he is solely human and possessed no divinity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e3:o1:1
# text = That he is solely human and possessed no divinity
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | human, solely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | past | That *not said here* | no divinity |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot divinity=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That he became divine only subsequent to his death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e3:o2:1
# text = That he became divine only subsequent to his death
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | That |  |  |  |  | divine, subsequent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **die** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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That he is solely divine and merely appeared human

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e3:o3:1
# text = That he is solely divine and merely appeared human
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | divine, solely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | human, merely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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That he is at once fully divine and fully human

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e3:o4:1
# text = That he is at once fully divine and fully human
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
6	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | divine, fully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | 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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