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# Test 7 · ★ · What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and he…

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«You Christians think everyone else burns in hell, right?» says a classmate angrily. Fairest reply?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, everyone, classmate · **What happens:** think, burn, say · **To what, where:** hell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 22 «What Christians believe: prayer, forgiveness, grace and heaven» 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/22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «You Christians think everyone else burns in hell, right?» says a classmate angrily.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:t7:1
# text = «You Christians think everyone else burns in hell, right?» says a classmate angrily.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** *in a quote* | present | everyone |  |  | hell |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hell=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a classmate |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:* Fairest reply?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:t7:2
# text = Fairest reply?
1	Fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No Christian has ever believed in hell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:t7:o1:1
# text = No Christian has ever believed in hell
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present · perfect · passive |  | no Christian |  | hell | ever |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, all Christians believe exactly that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:t7:o2:1
# text = Yes, all Christians believe exactly that
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | all Christians | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only people from other countries go there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:t7:o3:1
# text = Only people from other countries go there
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | people from other countries |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Beliefs about hell differ widely; many trust God to be fair and merciful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:22-prayer-forgiveness-grace-and-heaven:t7:o4:1
# text = Beliefs about hell differ widely; many trust God to be fair and merciful
1	Beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
9	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	merciful	merciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | present | Beliefs about hell |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Beliefs about hell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Beliefs about hell *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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