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title: What is zakat? — Islam · tree and pragmatics
description: What is zakat? Test 11 of lesson 31 «Islam» 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.
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# Test 11 · Islam

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What is zakat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** zakat

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This is test 11 of lesson 31 «Islam» 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/31-islam/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:31-islam:t11:1
# text = What is zakat?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	zakat	zakat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | zakat |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A prayer said at sunrise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:31-islam:t11:o1:1
# text = A prayer said at sunrise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a prayer *not said here* |  |  | sunrise |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The meal after the fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:31-islam:t11:o2:1
# text = The meal after the fast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A journey to the holy city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:31-islam:t11:o3:1
# text = A journey to the holy city
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Giving part of your money to the poor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:31-islam:t11:o4:1
# text = Giving part of your money to the poor
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | part of your money | the poor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to poor=Recipient |

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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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