Test 11 · ★★ · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…

What excuse might the priest have had for passing by, and was it good?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest · What happens: be, have · To what, where: passing

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 had	obj
2	excuse	excuse	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 priest	det
5	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 had	aux
7	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 passing	case
9	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 passing	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 good	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 good	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 good	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 good	expl
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	have	might · perfect	the priest	passing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passing=Patient
3	is	past			good property	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

He had to feed his sheep, which was more important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 feed	mark
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sheep	nmod:poss
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 important	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 important	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 important	cop
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 important	advmod
11	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	He			tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	He not said here	his sheep		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient
3	is	past			important property	tree rules

Option 2

He was not allowed on that road at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	past · passive		He		that road		at all	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 3

He did not see the man because it was dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 dark	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dark	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dark	cop
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	He	the man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
2	is	past	it					dark property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fear or being busy, but the man's need was greater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 busy	cc
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 busy	cop
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fear	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 greater	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 greater	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 man	case
10	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 greater	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 greater	cop
12	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Fear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		busy property	tree rules
2	is	past	the man's need	great property	tree rules
3	need		the man		nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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