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description: Identify the response consistent with the Christian understanding of petitionary prayer. Exam question 2 of lesson 22 «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 2 · What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and he…

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Identify the response consistent with the Christian understanding of petitionary prayer.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, understand · **To what, where:** response, petitionary prayer

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 22 «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» 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/22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:e2:1
# text = Identify the response consistent with the Christian understanding of petitionary prayer.
1	Identify	identify	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	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	petitionary	petitionary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** |  |  | petitionary prayer |  |  |  |  | nom understanding «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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That prayer is efficacious only when uttered by clergy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:e2:o1:1
# text = That prayer is efficacious only when uttered by clergy
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	efficacious	efficacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that prayer |  |  |  |  | efficacious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle | that prayer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by clergy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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That God attends solely to prayers offered on Sundays in a church building

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:e2:o2:1
# text = That God attends solely to prayers offered on Sundays in a church building
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attends	attend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | present | that God |  |  |  |  | to prayers; solely *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to prayer=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | participle |  | prayers *not said here* |  | a church building | sunday |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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That God attends to every prayer, the answer being yes, no or wait

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:e2:o3:1
# text = That God attends to every prayer, the answer being yes, no or wait
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attends	attend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | present | that God |  |  |  |  | to every prayer and the answer | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to prayer=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That God grants without exception every request made

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:e2:o4:1
# text = That God grants without exception every request made
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grants	grant	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | present | that God | every request |  |  |  | without exception | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | every request *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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