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description: Determine the proportion of income traditionally surrendered under the practice of tithing. Exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Exam question 2 · Sunday school, youth groups and charity

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Determine the proportion of income traditionally surrendered under the practice of tithing.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, proportion · **What happens:** determine, surrender, practice · **To what, where:** practice, tithing

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 27 «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» 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/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:e2:1
# text = Determine the proportion of income traditionally surrendered under the practice of tithing.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	income	income	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	surrendered	surrender	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	tithing	tithing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **surrender** | past | the proportion of income |  |  | the practice of tithing |  | traditionally *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **practice** |  |  | tithing |  |  |  |  | nom practice «act 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 {#o1}

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One quarter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:e2:o1:1
# text = One quarter
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:e2:o2:1
# text = One half
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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One tenth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:e2:o3:1
# text = One tenth
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tenth	tenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The entirety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:e2:o4:1
# text = The entirety
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	entirety	entirety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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