Test 2 · ★★ · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…
Told today, who might the Samaritan be?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: today · What happens: tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ 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 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Told | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 be | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 be | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Samaritan | det |
| 7 | Samaritan | Samaritan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 be | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 today | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Told | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | today | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | might | today | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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
The vicar of your own church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vicar | det |
| 2 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 church | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 church | amod |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vicar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A famous footballer that everyone in town already loves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 footballer | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 footballer | amod |
| 3 | footballer | footballer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 loves | obj |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 loves | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 everyone | nmod |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 loves | advmod |
| 9 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 footballer | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | everyone | a famous footballer | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Your best friend from class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 class | case |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Someone from a group your town is taught to dislike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 group | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Someone | nmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 town | nmod:poss |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 group | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 taught | aux:pass |
| 8 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dislike | mark |
| 10 | dislike | dislike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 taught | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · passive | Someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dislike | to-infinitive | Someone not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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