Exam question 3 · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…

Ascertain the number of sheep left by the shepherd in order that the lost one might be sought.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, order · What happens: ascertain, leave, lose, seek · To what, where: number, sheep, order, lost one

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sheep	case
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sheep	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 shepherd	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shepherd	det
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 order	case
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 sought	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sought	nsubj:pass
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sought	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sought	aux:pass
18	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 order	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of sheep		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	leave	participle		sheep not said here	in order result; by the shepherd	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in order=Result
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seek	might · passive	order not said here	the lost one		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Ninety

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ninety	ninety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

One hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ninety-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Ninety	conj

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

Option 4

Twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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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