Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

In what manner is the statue of Psyche discovered?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: manner · What happens: be, discover · To what, where: statue

This is exam question 3 of lesson 954 «Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a monk, doubts his faith, dies, and centuries later his marble Psyche is dug up» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 statue	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 statue	det
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Psyche	case
8	Psyche	Psyche	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nmod
9	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 statue	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	manner	the statue				of Psyche	tree rules
2	discover	participle		the statue not said here					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

It is raised from a grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raised	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raised	aux:pass
3	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 grave	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grave	det
6	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present · passive		It		a grave			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from grave=Destination

Option 2

It is lifted from the ruins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	aux:pass
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ruins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ruins	det
6	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lifted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present · passive		It		the ruins			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from ruin=Destination

Option 3

Found in a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 box	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle				a box			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is found in a crypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 crypt	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crypt	det
6	crypt	crypt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		It		a crypt			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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