Test 10 · ★★ · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…
Which two parables both end with a party after finding something?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: both, party · What happens: end, find · To what, where: two parables, something
This is test 10 · ★★ 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 parables | nsubj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 parables | nummod |
| 3 | parables | parable | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 end | nsubj |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 parables | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 party | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obl |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 finding | mark |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 party | acl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 finding | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 parables | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | both | two parables not said here | with a party | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector parable=Eventuality with party=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | a party not said here | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
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
The Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Son | det |
| 2 | Prodigal | Prodigal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Son | compound |
| 3 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Samaritan | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Samaritan | det |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Samaritan | amod |
| 7 | Samaritan | Samaritan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Sheep | amod |
| 3 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Coin | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Coin | det |
| 6 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Coin | amod |
| 7 | Coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sheep | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The Good Samaritan and the Lost Coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Samaritan | det |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Samaritan | amod |
| 3 | Samaritan | Samaritan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Coin | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Coin | det |
| 6 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Coin | amod |
| 7 | Coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Samaritan | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The Lost Sheep and the Good Samaritan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Sheep | amod |
| 3 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Samaritan | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Samaritan | det |
| 6 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Samaritan | amod |
| 7 | Samaritan | Samaritan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sheep | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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