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title: What is the principal theme of the monk's teaching to the sculptor d… — Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the principal theme of the monk's teaching to the sculptor during his convalescence? 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, with the depe
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/953-pg27200-part164/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:e3:1
# text = What is the principal theme of the monk's teaching to the sculptor during his convalescence?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	convalescence	convalescence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Peace in the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:e3:o1:1
# text = Peace in the church
1	Peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:e3:o2:1
# text = The sinfulness of man and the peace to be found in the church
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sinfulness	sinfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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The sinfulness of man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:e3:o3:1
# text = The sinfulness of man
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sinfulness	sinfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:953-pg27200-part164:e3:o4:1
# text = The weakness of human love and the hope of the afterlife in heaven
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	afterlife	afterlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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