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Test 11 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

«If the late workers got the same pay, why work hard at all?» Best-reasoned reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: late workers · What happens: get, work, reason · To what, where: same pay, reply

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: «If the late workers got the same pay, why work hard at all?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 workers	det
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 workers	amod
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pay	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pay	amod
9	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 work	advmod
12	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 got	parataxis
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 work	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 work	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	the late workers	the same pay					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pay=Stimulus
2	work in a quote	present						at all; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=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.

Sentence 2: Best-reasoned reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 reasoned	advmod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Best	punct
3	reasoned	reason	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reasoned	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reasoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reason	participle		reply					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because the boss will always pay you double

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 pay	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boss	det
3	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pay	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 pay	advmod
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 double	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pay	obj
8	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	future	the boss	you				always property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The story is about God's generosity, not a rule for wages; work still matters

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 generosity	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 generosity	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 generosity	case
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 generosity	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 God	case
7	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rule	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 rule	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rule	det
11	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 generosity	appos
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 wages	case
13	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rule	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 work	punct
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 matters	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 matters	advmod
17	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 generosity	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the story					about God's generosity	tree rules
2	matter	present	work	God's generosity not said here			still		tree rules

Option 3

It's fair because the late ones were richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fair	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 richer	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 richer	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 richer	cop
9	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fair	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	is	past	the late ones					rich property	tree rules

Option 4

You shouldn't, it proves hard work is pointless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 should	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 proves	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 should	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proves	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proves	nsubj
6	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pointless	advcl
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 work	amod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proves	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pointless	cop
10	pointless	pointless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	should	it	hard work					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
2	is	present						pointless property	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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