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title: Ascertain the signification of the Hebrew word «Amen» as pronounced… — Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the signification of the Hebrew word «Amen» as pronounced at the conclusion of prayer. Exam question 3 of lesson 23 «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 3 · Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer

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Ascertain the signification of the Hebrew word «Amen» as pronounced at the conclusion of prayer.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, pronounce, signify, conclude · **To what, where:** signification, conclusion, Hebrew word, prayer

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 23 «Sunday service, hymns and the Lord's Prayer» 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/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the signification of the Hebrew word «Amen» as pronounced at the conclusion of prayer.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	signification	signification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Hebrew	hebrew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Amen	Amen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the signification of the Hebrew word |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signification=Topic |
| 2 | **pronounce** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | the conclusion of prayer |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **signify** |  |  | the Hebrew word |  |  |  |  | nom signification «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **conclude** |  |  | prayer |  |  |  |  | nom conclusion «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So be it, or truly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer:e3:o1:1
# text = So be it, or truly
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Peace be upon you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer:e3:o2:1
# text = Peace be upon you
1	Peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | infinitive | Peace |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The service is hereby concluded

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer:e3:o3:1
# text = The service is hereby concluded
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	hereby	hereby	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | present · passive |  | the service |  |  |  | hereby *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Glory to God

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer:e3:o4:1
# text = Glory to God
1	Glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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