Test 9 · ★ · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief

olympiad judge: "Why should a Christian ask a Buddhist about Buddhism, not just read a meme?"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Christian · What happens: ask, not read · To what, where: Buddhist, meme

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judge	compound
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 ask	advmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Christian	det
8	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ask	nsubj
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 judge	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Buddhist	det
11	Buddhist	buddhist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 Buddhism	case
13	Buddhism	Buddhism	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Buddhist	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 read	punct
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 read	advmod
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 read	advmod
17	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 meme	det
19	meme	meme	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 read	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 judge	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 judge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	should	a Christian	a Buddhist				about Buddhism	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent buddhist=Recipient about buddhism=Topic
2	not read in a quote	infinitive		a meme					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meme=Topic

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

Only priests should know about other faiths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 priests	advmod
2	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 faiths	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 faiths	amod
7	faiths	faith	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	priests					about other faiths	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about faith=Stimulus

Option 2

Buddhists never tell anyone the truth about their own religion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buddhists	buddhist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 tell	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 religion	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 religion	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 religion	amod
10	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 truth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present	Buddhists	the truth	anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient truth=Topic

Option 3

Memes are always better than people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Memes	meme	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Memes					than people; always, good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Members give real facts; memes often spread stereotypes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 facts	amod
4	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 spread	punct
6	memes	meme	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 spread	advmod
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
9	stereotypes	stereotype	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Members	real facts					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme
2	spread	present	memes	stereotypes				often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stereotype=Theme

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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