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Test 5 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

Buddhist classmate: «What's the point of the mustard seed story?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Buddhist classmate · What happens: be · To what, where: point

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: Buddhist classmate: «What's the point of the mustard seed story?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 classmate	amod
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 classmate	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 point	punct
5	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 point	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 point	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 classmate	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 story	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
11	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seed	compound
12	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 story	compound
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 point	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 point	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Buddhist classmate	the point				of the seed story	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

Birds are more important than plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 important	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 important	advmod
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 plants	case
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 important	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Birds					than plants; important property	tree rules

Option 2

Seeds should never be planted in gardens, only in fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 planted	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 planted	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 planted	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 planted	aux:pass
5	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 gardens	case
7	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 planted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fields	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 fields	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 fields	case
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 planted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not plant	should · passive		Seeds		gardens		in fields	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in garden=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Small beginnings can grow into something great

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beginnings	amod
2	beginnings	beginning	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 grow	obl
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can	Small beginnings					into something result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into something=Result

Option 4

Mustard is the best plant to grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plant	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 plant	amod
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plant	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mustard	the best plant					tree rules
2	grow	to-infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «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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