Exam question 2 · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief

Identify the principal cause of suffering as enunciated in the Four Noble Truths.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, enunciate, cause · To what, where: principal cause, suffering

This is exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 suffering	case
6	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cause	nmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 enunciated	mark
8	enunciated	enunciate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 Truths	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Truths	det
11	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 Truths	nummod
12	Noble	Noble	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Truths	compound
13	Truths	Truth	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 enunciated	obl:agent
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of suffering	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	enunciate	participle	you not said here		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	cause			suffering	nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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

The displeasure of the gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 displeasure	det
2	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gods	det
5	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 displeasure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	displease			the gods					nom displeasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Misfortune at birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 birth	case
3	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Misfortune	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Craving or desire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Craving	craving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 desire	cc
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Craving	conj

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

Option 4

Neglect of temple worship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 worship	case
3	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worship	compound
4	worship	worship	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Neglect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neglect			temple worship					nom neglect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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