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title: Which parable shows someone giving up everything for one treasure? — Parables: the Talents, the Sower and m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which parable shows someone giving up everything for one treasure? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Parables: the Talents, the Sower and more

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Which parable shows someone giving up everything for one treasure?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/15-parables-talents-sower-and-more/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t9:1
# text = Which parable shows someone giving up everything for one treasure?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	parable	parable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The four soils of the sower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t9:o1:1
# text = The four soils of the sower
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sower	sower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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The buried talent in the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t9:o2:1
# text = The buried talent in the ground
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	talent	talent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The pearl of great price

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t9: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 rich fool and his barns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:15-parables-talents-sower-and-more:t9:o4:1
# text = The rich fool and his barns
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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**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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