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title: Myth to check: «When good people die, they become angels with wings.» — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Myth to check: «When good people die, they become angels with wings.» Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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 · ★★ · Souls, ghosts and stories

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Myth to check: «When good people die, they become angels with wings.»

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** good people, people · **What happens:** check, die, become · **To what, where:** angels

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Souls, ghosts and stories» 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/74-souls-ghosts-and-stories/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:74-souls-ghosts-and-stories:t11:1
# text = Myth to check: «When good people die, they become angels with wings.»
1	Myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** *in a quote* | present | good people |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **become** *in a quote* | present | people | angels with wings |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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True, but only for children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:74-souls-ghosts-and-stories:t11:o1:1
# text = True, but only for children
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True; the Bible says so plainly, many times, about good people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:74-souls-ghosts-and-stories:t11:o2:1
# text = True; the Bible says so plainly, many times, about good people
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Bible |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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False; they become ghosts instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:74-souls-ghosts-and-stories:t11:o3:1
# text = False; they become ghosts instead
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | they | ghosts |  |  |  | false, instead *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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False in Christian teaching; angels are different beings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:74-souls-ghosts-and-stories:t11:o4:1
# text = False in Christian teaching; angels are different beings
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
6	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | False angels | different beings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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