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title: Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy." Whi… — Buddhism, humanism and respect for eve… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy." Which Buddhist teaching speaks to this? Test 7 · ★ 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 ea
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# Test 7 · ★ · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief

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Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy." Which Buddhist teaching speaks to this?

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:t7:1
# text = Grace keeps thinking "if I just had the new phone I'd be happy."
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	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	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 Buddhist teaching speaks to this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:t7:2
# text = Which Buddhist teaching speaks to this?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Suffering comes from craving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:t7:o1:1
# text = Suffering comes from craving
1	Suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	craving	craving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Phones were made by the gods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:t7:o2:1
# text = Phones were made by the gods
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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The soul is reborn as a phone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:t7:o3:1
# text = The soul is reborn as a phone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	reborn	reborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Life is always full of joy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect:t7:o4:1
# text = Life is always full of joy
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Life |  |  |  |  | of joy; always, full *property* | tree rules |

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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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