Exam question 3 · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…

What is the principal theme of the monk's teaching to the sculptor during his convalescence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monk · What happens: be, teach, convalesce · To what, where: principal theme

This is exam question 3 of lesson 953 «Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts with artists, buries his marble statue and turns to faith» of the books 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 theme	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 theme	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 theme	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 theme	amod
5	theme	theme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 teaching	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monk	det
8	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teaching	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 monk	case
10	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 theme	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 sculptor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sculptor	det
13	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teaching	nmod
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 convalescence	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 convalescence	nmod:poss
16	convalescence	convalescence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sculptor	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 theme	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal theme	of the monk's teaching to the sculptor during monk's convalescence	tree rules
2	teach		the monk		to the sculptor during monk's convalescence	nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
3	convalesce		monk			nom convalescence «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Peace in the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 church	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 church	det
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peace	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The sinfulness of man and the peace to be found in the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sinfulness	det
2	sinfulness	sinfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 man	case
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinfulness	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 peace	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peace	det
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 found	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 found	aux:pass
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sinfulness	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 church	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 church	det
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive · passive				the church			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

Option 3

The sinfulness of man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sinfulness	det
2	sinfulness	sinfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 man	case
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinfulness	nmod

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

Option 4

The weakness of human love and the hope of the afterlife in heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weakness	det
2	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 love	case
4	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 love	amod
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weakness	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hope	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hope	det
8	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 afterlife	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 afterlife	det
11	afterlife	afterlife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hope	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 heaven	case
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 afterlife	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope		the afterlife in heaven						nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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