Test 4 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more
Your mate lets you off owing him a fiver, then you hound your little brother over 20p. Which parable?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: let off, owe, hound · To what, where: you, fiver, mate, little brother
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: Your mate lets you off owing him a fiver, then you hound your little brother over 20p.
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 | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lets | nsubj |
| 3 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lets | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 lets | compound:prt |
| 6 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lets | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 owing | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fiver | det |
| 9 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hound | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hound | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 hound | nsubj |
| 13 | hound | hound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lets | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hound | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 20 | advmod |
| 18 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 p | nummod |
| 19 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hound | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let off | present | Your mate | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | owe | gerund | Your mate not said here | a fiver | mate | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal fiver=Theme | |||
| 3 | hound | present | you | your little brother | then | 20 p obl | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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: Which parable?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 parable | det |
| 2 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 parable | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The unforgiving servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | unforgiving | unforgiving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The mustard seed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seed | det |
| 2 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | compound |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The pearl of great price
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pearl | det |
| 2 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 price | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 price | amod |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pearl | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pearl | great price | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
The two builders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 builders | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 builders | nummod |
| 3 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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