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title: How did the Buddha's teaching get to Sri Lanka? — Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our nu… · tree and pragmatics
description: How did the Buddha's teaching get to Sri Lanka? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history 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 · ★★★ · Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers

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How did the Buddha's teaching get to Sri Lanka?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teaching, Buddha · **What happens:** do, get, teach · **To what, where:** Sri

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history 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/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:t9:1
# text = How did the Buddha's teaching get to Sri Lanka?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | the Buddha's teaching |  | Sri |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sri=Result |
| 3 | **teach** |  | the Buddha |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ashoka sent teachers there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:t9:o1:1
# text = Ashoka sent teachers there
1	Ashoka	Ashoka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Ashoka | teachers |  | there |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Vikings sailed it there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:t9:o2:1
# text = Vikings sailed it there
1	Vikings	Viking	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | Vikings | it |  | there |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was found on the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:t9:o3:1
# text = It was found on the Moon
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | It |  | the Moon |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Romans carried it there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers:t9:o4:1
# text = Romans carried it there
1	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Romans | it |  | there |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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