Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

What does the narrator suggest will survive the ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: suggest, survive · To what, where: ages

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 suggest	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suggest	nsubj
5	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 survive	advcl
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 survive	aux
7	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ages	det
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 survive	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	the narrator						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	survive	future		the ages					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Circumstance

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 art

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 art	nmod:poss
2	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The soul and the statue's fame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soul	det
2	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fame	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fame	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 statue	case
7	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soul	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The heavenly soul and its art

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soul	det
2	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soul	amod
3	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 art	cc
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 art	nmod:poss
6	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soul	conj

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

Option 4

The stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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