Test 7 · ★ · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief
Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy." Which Buddhist teaching speaks to this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace, Buddhist teaching · What happens: keep, think, have, be, speak · To what, where: new phone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 33 «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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
Sentence 1: Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 had | advmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 phone | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 phone | amod |
| 11 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 happy | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happy | cop |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thinking | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 happy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Grace | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Grace not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Grace | the new phone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | would | Grace | happy property | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: Which Buddhist teaching speaks to this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 speaks | obj |
| 2 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teaching | amod |
| 3 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaks | nsubj |
| 4 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 speaks | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Buddhist teaching | to this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Suffering comes from craving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 craving | case |
| 4 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Suffering | craving | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from craving=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Phones were made by the gods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 gods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gods | det |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the gods | Phones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
Option 3
The soul is reborn as a phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soul | det |
| 2 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reborn | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reborn | cop |
| 4 | reborn | reborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 phone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 phone | det |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reborn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the soul | as a phone; reborn property | tree rules |
Option 4
Life is always full of joy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Life | of joy; always, full property | tree rules |
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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