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title: Judge's follow-up: "How is Pentecost the opposite of Babel?" — Noah and the Tower of Babel · tree and pragmatics
description: Judge's follow-up: "How is Pentecost the opposite of Babel?" Test 11 of lesson 3 «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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 11 · Noah and the Tower of Babel

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Judge's follow-up: "How is Pentecost the opposite of Babel?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Pentecost

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This is test 11 of lesson 3 «Noah and the Tower of Babel» 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/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel:t11:1
# text = Judge's follow-up: "How is Pentecost the opposite of Babel?"
1	Judge	Judge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	follow	follow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Babel	Babel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Pentecost |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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At Babel languages divided people; at Pentecost everyone understood the good news in their own language

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel:t11:o1:1
# text = At Babel languages divided people; at Pentecost everyone understood the good news in their own language
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Babel	Babel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
10	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past | languages | people |  | Babel |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** | past | languages *not said here* | the good news |  | everyone |  | in languages's own language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At Babel people spoke one language and at Pentecost no one spoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel:t11:o2:1
# text = At Babel people spoke one language and at Pentecost no one spoke
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Babel	Babel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Pentecost	Pentecost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | people | one language |  | Babel |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | no one |  |  | Pentecost |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pentecost is when the flood ended

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel:t11:o3:1
# text = Pentecost is when the flood ended
1	Pentecost	pentecost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pentecost |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | past | the flood |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Both stories end with a tower falling down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel:t11:o4:1
# text = Both stories end with a tower falling down
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | both stories |  |  |  |  | with a tower | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with tower=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **fall down** | gerund | a tower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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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