Exam question 1 · Sunday school, youth groups and charity

Identify the principal teaching conveyed by the parable of the sheep and the goats.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey · To what, where: principal teaching

This is exam question 1 of lesson 27 «Sunday school, youth groups and charity» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teaching	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teaching	amod
4	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 teaching	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 parable	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parable	det
8	parable	parable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conveyed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sheep	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sheep	det
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 parable	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 goats	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 goats	det
14	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sheep	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal teaching					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent teaching=Theme
2	convey	participle		the principal teaching not said here				by the parable of the sheep and the goats	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

That sheep are of greater value than goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 value	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 value	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 value	case
5	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 value	amod
6	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 goats	case
8	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 value	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that sheep					of greater value; than goats	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That service to persons in need constitutes service to Christ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 service	det
2	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 service	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 persons	case
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 service	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 constitutes	case
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 constitutes	compound
7	constitutes	constitute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 persons	nmod
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Christ	case
10	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 service	nmod

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

Option 3

That the keeping of livestock is pleasing to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 pleasing	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 livestock	det
3	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 livestock	compound
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 keeping	obl
5	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleasing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pleasing	aux
7	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 God	case
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 pleasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	please	present · progressive	That		God				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

That the stranger ought to be turned away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stranger	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj:pass
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	7 turned	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 turned	aux:pass
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	ought · passive		that stranger				away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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