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description: State the number of books comprised in the Bible as generally received by Protestant churches. Exam question 4 of lesson 21 «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 4 · What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit

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State the number of books comprised in the Bible as generally received by Protestant churches.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, comprise, receive · **To what, where:** number, books, Bible

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e4:1
# text = State the number of books comprised in the Bible as generally received by Protestant churches.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	comprised	comprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Protestant	protestant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of books |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **comprise** | participle |  | books *not said here* |  | the Bible |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Protestant churches; generally *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by church=Location |

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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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Seventy-three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e4:o1:1
# text = Seventy-three
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sixty-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e4:o2:1
# text = Sixty-six
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e4:o3:1
# text = One hundred
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:e4:o4:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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