---
title: «Abba? Isn't that a band?» laughs a kid in class. What did Jesus mea… — What Christians believe: God, Jesus an… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Abba? Isn't that a band?» laughs a kid in class. What did Jesus mean by it? Test 5 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 each option; Mova's choice
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/t5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [What Christians believe: God, Jesus an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/) / t5

# Test 5 · What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«Abba? Isn't that a band?» laughs a kid in class. What did Jesus mean by it?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** band, Jesus · **What happens:** not be, laugh, mean · **To what, where:** band, kid, class

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 5 of lesson 21 «What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit» 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/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/#t5).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* «Abba?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:1
# text = «Abba?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Abba	Abba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* Isn't that a band?» laughs a kid in class.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:2
# text = Isn't that a band?» laughs a kid in class.
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a band |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present | a band | a kid |  | class |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 3:* What did Jesus mean by it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:3
# text = What did Jesus mean by it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | past · do-support | Jesus |  |  |  |  | by class | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A warm family word for Father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:o1:1
# text = A warm family word for Father
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Greek word meaning king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:o2:1
# text = A Greek word meaning king
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | a Greek word *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Hebrew word meaning so be it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:o3:1
# text = A Hebrew word meaning so be it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hebrew	hebrew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | gerund | a Hebrew word *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *not said to happen* | infinitive | a Hebrew word *not said here* | word |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A name for the Holy Spirit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit:t5:o4:1
# text = A name for the Holy Spirit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [What Christians believe: God, Jesus an…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/t4/)
- next →: [What Christians believe: God, Jesus an…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/t6/)
- ↑ back to [What Christians believe: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/21-god-jesus-and-the-holy-spirit/)

