--- title: Identify the season of the ecclesiastical year comprising the four w… — The church year · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the season of the ecclesiastical year comprising the four weeks preceding the Nativity. Exam question 1 of lesson 26 «The church year» 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 was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/e1/) [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/) / [The church year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · The church year Identify the season of the ecclesiastical year comprising the four weeks preceding the Nativity. **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, ecclesiastical year, four weeks · **What happens:** identify, comprise, precede · **To what, where:** Nativity This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «The church year» 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/26-the-church-year/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:e1:1 # text = Identify the season of the ecclesiastical year comprising the four weeks preceding the Nativity. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 season season 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 ecclesiastical ecclesiastical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 comprising comprise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 preceding precede VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Nativity Nativity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | season | | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **comprise** | gerund | the ecclesiastical year *not said here* | | | | week | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **precede** | gerund | the four weeks *not said here* | the Nativity | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nativity=Co-Theme | 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} Lent ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:e1:o1:1 # text = Lent 1 Lent Lent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Holy Week ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:e1:o2:1 # text = Holy Week 1 Holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Week Week PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Epiphany ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:e1:o3:1 # text = Epiphany 1 Epiphany Epiphany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Advent ```conllu # sent_id = question:religion-ethics:26-the-church-year:e1:o4:1 # text = Advent 1 Advent advent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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