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Test 8 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

Grandad says faith is like building on rock. What does he mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, faith · What happens: say, build, mean · To what, where: rock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Grandad says faith is like building on rock.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 building	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 building	aux
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 building	mark
6	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 rock	case
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 building	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	build	present · progressive	faith			rock			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on rock=Source

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: What does he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	faith						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Churches should always be built of stone, never of wood or brick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 built	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 built	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 stone	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wood	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 wood	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 wood	case
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 brick	cc
13	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wood	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	should · passive		Churches				of stone; always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rich people build better houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	nsubj
3	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 houses	amod
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Rich people	better houses					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Living by Jesus' teaching keeps you steady in hard times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	csubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 teaching	case
3	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 teaching	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 Jesus	case
5	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Living	obl
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 keeps	obj
8	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeps	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 times	case
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund						by Jesus's teaching	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by teaching=Location
2	keep	present	Living	you			time	steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	teach		Jesus						nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

You should never go to the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	should	You			the beach			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

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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