Test 9 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

Which parable shows someone giving up everything for one treasure?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: parable · What happens: show, give up · To what, where: someone, everything

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 parable	det
2	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 shows	obj
5	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 someone	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 giving	compound:prt
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 giving	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 treasure	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 treasure	nummod
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giving	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	which parable		someone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient
2	give up	gerund		everything				for one treasure	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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.

The options

Option 1

The four soils of the sower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soils	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 soils	nummod
3	soils	soil	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sower	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sower	det
6	sower	sower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soils	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soil			the sower					nom soil «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The buried talent in the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 talent	det
2	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 talent	amod
3	talent	talent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

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 rich fool and his barns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fool	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fool	amod
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barns	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 barns	nmod:poss
6	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fool	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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