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title: Identify the principal cause of suffering as enunciated in the Four… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for eve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal cause of suffering as enunciated in the Four Noble Truths. Exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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 
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# Exam question 2 · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal cause of suffering as enunciated in the Four Noble Truths.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	enunciated	enunciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Truths	Truth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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 {#o1}

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The displeasure of the gods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:e2:o1:1
# text = The displeasure of the gods
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Misfortune at birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:e2:o2:1
# text = Misfortune at birth
1	Misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Craving or desire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:e2:o3:1
# text = Craving or desire
1	Craving	craving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neglect of temple worship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:e2:o4:1
# text = Neglect of temple worship
1	Neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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**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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