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title: Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool. Why not as a b… — Churches of the English-speaking world I · tree and pragmatics
description: Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool. Why not as a baby? Test 8 of lesson 28 «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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 8 · Churches of the English-speaking world I

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Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool. Why not as a baby?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** baptise · **To what, where:** Baptist friend, 13

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This is test 8 of lesson 28 «Churches of the English-speaking world I» 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/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i:t8:1
# text = Your Baptist friend was baptised at 13 in a big pool.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Baptist	baptist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	baptised	baptise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **baptise** | past · passive |  | Your Baptist friend |  | 13 |  | in a big pool | tree rules |

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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:* Why not as a baby?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i:t8:2
# text = Why not as a baby?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Baptists think water is bad for babies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i:t8:o1:1
# text = Baptists think water is bad for babies
1	Baptists	baptist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Baptists |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | water |  |  |  |  | for babies; bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Baptists baptise people old enough to choose for themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i:t8:o2:1
# text = Baptists baptise people old enough to choose for themselves
1	Baptists	baptist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	baptise	baptise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **baptise** | present | Baptists | people |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive | Baptists *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Baptists *= baptist* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for themselves=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Babies are not allowed in Baptist churches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i:t8:o3:1
# text = Babies are not allowed in Baptist churches
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Baptist	Baptist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | Babies |  | Baptist churches |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Baptists wait until people can swim well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i:t8:o4:1
# text = Baptists wait until people can swim well
1	Baptists	baptist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | Baptists |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | can | people |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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