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# Test 10 · ★★ · Baptism, communion and confirmation

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A judge follows up: «Why use ordinary things like water and bread for something holy?»

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** judge · **What happens:** follow up, use · **To what, where:** ordinary things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Baptism, communion and confirmation» 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/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation:t10:1
# text = A judge follows up: «Why use ordinary things like water and bread for something holy?»
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow up** | present | a judge |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ordinary things |  |  |  | like water and bread; for something | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for something=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Everyday things can become visible signs of God's grace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation:t10:o1:1
# text = Everyday things can become visible signs of God's grace
1	Everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | can | Everyday things | visible signs of God's grace |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sign** |  |  | God's grace |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Ordinary things are used so nobody notices

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation:t10:o2:1
# text = Ordinary things are used so nobody notices
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | Ordinary things |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **notice** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Holy things must always be expensive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation:t10:o3:1
# text = Holy things must always be expensive
1	Holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | Holy things |  |  |  |  | always, expensive *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Water and bread were the only food in church, so they had to use them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation:t10:o4:1
# text = Water and bread were the only food in church, so they had to use them
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Water and bread | the only food |  | church |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | to-infinitive | Water *not said here* | Water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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