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Test 10 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

A judge asks what «thorns» could choke good things in a child's life today. Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, thorns · What happens: ask, choke · To what, where: good things, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 15 «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» 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

Sentence 1: A judge asks what «thorns» could choke good things in a child's life today.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 choke	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 thorns	punct
6	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 choke	nsubj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 thorns	punct
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 choke	aux
9	choke	choke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	ccomp
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 choke	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 life	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 life	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 child	case
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choke	obl
17	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choke	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	choke	could	thorns	good things		a child's life	today		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.

Sentence 2: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Real thorn bushes in the school field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bushes	amod
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bushes	compound
3	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 field	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 field	compound
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bushes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Worries and distractions like screens crowding out good habits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worries	worry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 distractions	cc
3	distractions	distraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Worries	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 screens	case
5	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Worries	nmod
6	crowding	crowd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 screens	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 crowding	compound:prt
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 habits	amod
9	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crowding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crowd out	gerund	screens not said here	good habits					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme habit=Destination

Option 3

Teachers who give too much homework to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 homework	amod
6	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Teachers	much homework	anyone				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent homework=Theme to anyone=Recipient

Option 4

Nothing, the thorns were only about farming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 farming	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thorns	det
4	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 farming	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 farming	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 farming	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 farming	case
8	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the thorns					about farming	tree rules

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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