Test 1 · ★★ · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…

bro: «the Good Samaritan was a priest who helped». nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Good Samaritan, priest · What happens: be, help · To what, where: priest

This is test 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. 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 priest	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 priest	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Samaritan	det
5	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Samaritan	amod
6	Samaritan	Samaritan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 priest	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 priest	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 priest	det
9	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 helped	nsubj
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 priest	acl:relcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 priest	punct
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 priest	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 priest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the Good Samaritan	a priest				bro vocative	tree rules
2	help in a quote	past	a priest						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, the priest stopped and helped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 helped	cc
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the priest						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	help	past	the priest not said here		priest				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the priest passed by; the Samaritan helped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 priest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helped	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 priest	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 Samaritan	case
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 by	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Samaritan	det
9	Samaritan	Samaritan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
10	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		the priest not said here				by the Samaritan	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by samaritan=Location
2	help	past	the priest						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, it was a soldier who helped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 soldier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 soldier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 helped	nsubj
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soldier	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a soldier					tree rules
2	help	past	a soldier						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, the Levite and the priest helped together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 helped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Levite	det
4	Levite	Levite	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 helped	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 priest	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Levite	conj
8	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 helped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the Levite and the priest					together property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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