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title: State the relationship of Ruth the Moabitess to King David. — Ruth, and David and Goliath · tree and pragmatics
description: State the relationship of Ruth the Moabitess to King David. Exam question 3 of lesson 8 «Ruth, and David and Goliath» 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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# Exam question 3 · Ruth, and David and Goliath

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State the relationship of Ruth the Moabitess to King David.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state · **To what, where:** relationship, David

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 8 «Ruth, and David and Goliath» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath:e3:1
# text = State the relationship of Ruth the Moabitess to King David.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Moabitess	Moabitess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the relationship of Ruth | David  King |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent relationship=Topic to david=Recipient |

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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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Great-great-grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath:e3:o1:1
# text = Great-great-grandmother
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Great-grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath:e3:o2:1
# text = Great-grandmother
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Paternal grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath:e3:o3:1
# text = Paternal grandmother
1	Paternal	Paternal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Maternal grandmother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath:e3:o4:1
# text = Maternal grandmother
1	Maternal	maternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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