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title: Priya says: "If I'm mean today, it comes back to me." Which Hindu id… — Hinduism and Sikhism · tree and pragmatics
description: Priya says: "If I'm mean today, it comes back to me." Which Hindu idea is she thinking of? Test 4 of lesson 32 «Hinduism and Sikhism» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · Hinduism and Sikhism

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Priya says: "If I'm mean today, it comes back to me." Which Hindu idea is she thinking of?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Priya, it · **What happens:** say, be, come back, think · **To what, where:** Priya, Hindu idea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/32-hinduism-and-sikhism/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Priya says: "If I'm mean today, it comes back to me."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:32-hinduism-and-sikhism:t4:1
# text = Priya says: "If I'm mean today, it comes back to me."
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Priya |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Priya |  |  |  | today | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come back** *in a quote* | present | it |  | Priya |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which Hindu idea is she thinking of?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:32-hinduism-and-sikhism:t4:2
# text = Which Hindu idea is she thinking of?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · progressive |  | Hindu idea |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Seva

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:32-hinduism-and-sikhism:t4:o1:1
# text = Seva
1	Seva	Seva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Puja

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:32-hinduism-and-sikhism:t4:o2:1
# text = Puja
1	Puja	puja	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Moksha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:32-hinduism-and-sikhism:t4:o3:1
# text = Moksha
1	Moksha	Moksha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Karma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:32-hinduism-and-sikhism:t4:o4:1
# text = Karma
1	Karma	Karma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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