Test 7 · Hinduism and Sikhism

Why do people in the langar sit together on the floor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, sit · To what, where: floor

This is test 7 of lesson 32 «Hinduism and Sikhism» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	advcl
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sit	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 langar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 langar	det
6	langar	langar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	people in the langar not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	present	people in the langar			the floor		together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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

Because the gurdwara has no money for chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 has	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gurdwara	det
3	gurdwara	gurdwara	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 chairs	case
8	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 money	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the gurdwara	no money				for chairs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To show that everyone is equal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 equal	mark
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 equal	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 equal	cop
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	everyone					equal property	tree rules

Option 3

So the priests can sit higher up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 priests	det
3	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sit	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sit	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	can	the priests						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Because the floor is warmer than chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 warmer	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warmer	cop
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 chairs	case
7	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the floor					than chairs; warm property	tree rules

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