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title: A classmate who is Muslim asks why your church runs a food bank. Bes… — Sunday school, youth groups and charity · tree and pragmatics
description: A classmate who is Muslim asks why your church runs a food bank. Best answer? Test 3 · ★ 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's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Sunday school, youth groups and charity

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A classmate who is Muslim asks why your church runs a food bank. Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** classmate · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** food bank

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 27 «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» 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/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A classmate who is Muslim asks why your church runs a food bank.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:t3:1
# text = A classmate who is Muslim asks why your church runs a food bank.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	Muslim	Muslim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a classmate |  |  |  |  | ask *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | a classmate | a food bank |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Trajectory |

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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:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:t3:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Christians believe caring for the hungry is caring for Jesus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:t3:o1:1
# text = Christians believe caring for the hungry is caring for Jesus
1	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	caring	care	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Christians |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **care** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the hungry | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for hungry=Theme |
| 3 | **care** | present · progressive | caring |  |  |  |  | for Jesus | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for jesus=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only so the church can get more members and more money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:t3:o2:1
# text = Only so the church can get more members and more money
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can | the church | more members and more money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer member=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Because church food would go off otherwise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:t3:o3:1
# text = Because church food would go off otherwise
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | would | church food |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Because the government forces every church in the country to run one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity:t3:o4:1
# text = Because the government forces every church in the country to run one
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |

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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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