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title: «Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey. What's… — What other faiths and non-religious pe… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey. What's the most accurate answer? Test 6 of lesson 73 «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 6 · What other faiths and non-religious people believe

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«Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey. What's the most accurate answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jews, boy, accurate answer · **What happens:** believe, ask, be · **To what, where:** heaven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 of lesson 73 «What other faiths and non-religious people believe» 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/73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe:t6:1
# text = «Do Jews believe in heaven or nah?» asks a boy in New Jersey.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Jersey	Jersey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Jews |  |  | heaven |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:* What's the most accurate answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe:t6:2
# text = What's the most accurate answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the accurate answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, Jews believe in reincarnation as cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe:t6:o1:1
# text = No, Jews believe in reincarnation as cows
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reincarnation	reincarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Jews |  |  | reincarnation as cows |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, exactly the same heaven as Christians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe:t6:o2:1
# text = Yes, exactly the same heaven as Christians
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No Jew believes anything about after death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe:t6:o3:1
# text = No Jew believes anything about after death
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believes	believe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | no Jew | anything |  |  | after death |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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

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Many believe in the World to Come, but focus on this life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:73-what-other-faiths-and-non-religious-people-believe:t6:o4:1
# text = Many believe in the World to Come, but focus on this life
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	focus	focus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | present | Many |  |  | the World |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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