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description: Your mate lets you off owing him a fiver, then you hound your little brother over 20p. Which parable? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 15 «Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

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Your mate lets you off owing him a fiver, then you hound your little brother over 20p. Which parable?

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate lets you off owing him a fiver, then you hound your little brother over 20p.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t4:1
# text = Your mate lets you off owing him a fiver, then you hound your little brother over 20p.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hound	hound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which parable?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t4:2
# text = Which parable?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The unforgiving servant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t4:o1:1
# text = The unforgiving servant
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unforgiving	unforgiving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The mustard seed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t4:o2:1
# text = The mustard seed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The pearl of great price

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t4:o3:1
# text = The pearl of great price
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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The two builders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t4:o4:1
# text = The two builders
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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