Exam question 1 · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…

Identify the principal question which occasioned the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, principal question · What happens: identify, occasion · To what, where: principal question, parable

This is exam question 1 of lesson 14 «Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Lost Sheep» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 question	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 question	amod
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 occasioned	nsubj
6	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 question	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parable	det
8	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occasioned	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Samaritan	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Samaritan	det
11	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Samaritan	amod
12	Samaritan	Samaritan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 parable	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal question					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent question=Theme
2	occasion	past	the principal question	the parable of the Good Samaritan					tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«How ought we to pray?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pray	advmod
3	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pray	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pray	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pray	mark
6	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray in a quote	ought	we						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«Who is my neighbour?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 neighbour	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 neighbour	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 neighbour	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 neighbour	nmod:poss
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 neighbour	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 neighbour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		my neighbour					tree rules

Option 3

«Is it lawful to pay taxes?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 lawful	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lawful	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lawful	nsubj
4	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pay	mark
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lawful	csubj
7	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pay	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lawful	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 lawful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it					lawful property	tree rules
2	pay in a quote	to-infinitive		taxes					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset

Option 4

«Who is the greatest?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 greatest	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 greatest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 greatest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 greatest	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 greatest	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 greatest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						great property	tree rules

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