Exam question 1 · Famous paintings and the stories behind them

Identify the principal circumstance, other than its artistic merit, which contributed to the celebrity of the Mona Lisa.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, artistic merit · What happens: identify, contribute · To what, where: principal circumstance, celebrity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 circumstance	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 circumstance	amod
4	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 other	punct
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 circumstance	amod
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 merit	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 merit	nmod:poss
9	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 merit	amod
10	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 other	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 contributed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 contributed	nsubj
13	contributed	contribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 merit	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 celebrity	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 celebrity	det
16	celebrity	celebrity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 contributed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Lisa	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Lisa	det
19	Mona	Mona	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Lisa	compound
20	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 celebrity	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal circumstance					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent circumstance=Theme
2	contribute	past	circumstance's artistic merit		the celebrity of the Mona Lisa				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to celebrity=Recipient

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

Its exceptional dimensions exceeding those of all other paintings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dimensions	nmod:poss
2	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dimensions	amod
3	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 those	nsubj
4	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 those	nsubj
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 those	nmod
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 paintings	amod
9	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 those	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exceed	gerund							vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

Its exhibition upon national television in the course of the nineteenth century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 exhibition	nmod:poss
2	exhibition	exhibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 television	case
4	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 television	amod
5	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exhibition	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 course	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 course	det
8	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 television	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 century	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 century	det
11	nineteenth	nineteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 century	amod
12	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 course	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exhibit		Its = it					upon national television in the course of the nineteenth century	nom exhibition «act transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

Option 3

Its completion in the twentieth century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 completion	nmod:poss
2	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 century	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 century	det
5	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 century	amod
6	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 completion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complete		Its = it					in the twentieth century	nom completion «act transitive»: poss=agent in=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its theft from the Louvre in 1911 and recovery two years thereafter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 theft	nmod:poss
2	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 years	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Louvre	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Louvre	det
5	Louvre	Louvre	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 theft	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1911	case
7	1911	1911	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Louvre	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 recovery	cc
9	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 theft	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	_	11 years	advmod

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

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