Test 3 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

kid in Sunday school: «seed on rocks grew fast then died, so rocks are best lol». right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, rocks · What happens: grow, die, be

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 school	case
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 school	compound
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 seed	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 seed	punct
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 rocks	case
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seed	nmod
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 died	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 died	advmod
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grew	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 best	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 best	advmod
16	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 best	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 best	cop
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 grew	parataxis
19	lol	lol	INTJ	_	18 best	discourse
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 best	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
22	right	right	INTJ	_	10 grew	discourse
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	past	kid in Sunday school			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die in a quote	past	kid in Sunday school not said here	then	fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is in a quote	present	rocks		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

Yes, all four soils gave the same harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 soils	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 soils	nummod
5	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 harvest	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 harvest	amod
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	all four soils	the same harvest					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=Theme

Option 2

No, nothing ever grew on the rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 nothing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 grew	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 grew	advmod
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rocks	det
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	nothing			the rocks	ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it withered for lack of roots; good soil was best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 withered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 withered	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 withered	nsubj
4	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 best	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 lack	case
6	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 withered	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 roots	case
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lack	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 withered	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soil	amod
11	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 best	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 best	cop
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wither	past	it		for lack of roots	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past			good property	tree rules
3	lack			roots		nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yes, the rocky ground gave the biggest harvest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ground	det
4	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ground	amod
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 harvest	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 harvest	amod
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the rocky ground	the biggest harvest					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harvest=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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