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title: Why was everyone so hyped about the marble? — Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why was everyone so hyped about the marble? Test 11 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

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Why was everyone so hyped about the marble?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** be, hype · **To what, where:** everyone

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/954-pg27200-part165/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:954-pg27200-part165:t11:1
# text = Why was everyone so hyped about the marble?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hyped	hype	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | everyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hype** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | about the marble | tree rules |

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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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It was costly and very old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:954-pg27200-part165:t11:o1:1
# text = It was costly and very old
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | costly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was beautiful and perfect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:954-pg27200-part165:t11:o2:1
# text = It was beautiful and perfect
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was beautiful, perfect in every line, and the finest work of an ancient master

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:954-pg27200-part165:t11:o3:1
# text = It was beautiful, perfect in every line, and the finest work of an ancient master
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  | every line |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** |  | a ancient master |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Because the monks had worshipped it as a holy saint for centuries in the chapel

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:954-pg27200-part165:t11:o4:1
# text = Because the monks had worshipped it as a holy saint for centuries in the chapel
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worshipp** | past · perfect · passive |  | the monks |  | the chapel | century | as a holy saint | tree rules |

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