Test 9 · ★★ · Parables: the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son and the Los…
Judge: «Why did Jesus answer the lawyer with a story instead of a rule?»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jesus · What happens: answer · To what, where: lawyer
This is test 9 · ★★ 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 | Judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 4 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 answer | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | aux |
| 6 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Judge | appos |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lawyer | det |
| 9 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lawyer | nmod |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 rule | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rule | det |
| 16 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lawyer | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | Jesus | the lawyer | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lawyer=Eventuality |
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
Jesus did not know the answer to the question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 question | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Jesus | the answer | to the question | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A story makes him see who acted as neighbour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 acted | nsubj |
| 7 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 neighbour | case |
| 9 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a story | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | act | past | as neighbour | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as neighbour=Attribute |
Option 3
Stories were the only thing allowed to be taught
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thing | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 taught | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taught | aux:pass |
| 9 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Stories | the only thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow | participle | the only thing not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | teach speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the only thing not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
Option 4
Rules about who counts as a neighbour did not exist then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exist | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 counts | mark |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 counts | nsubj |
| 4 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rules | acl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 neighbour | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 neighbour | det |
| 7 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counts | obl |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 exist | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 exist | advmod |
| 10 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 exist | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Rules | as a neighbour | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as neighbour=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not exist | past · do-support | Rules | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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