Khachatur Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University

Faculty of Foreign Languages

English language and literature department
Bachelor's degree programme, 3rd year, autumn semester
Course: Theoretical Grammar (Syntax)
Exam: 2nd midterm
ATTENTION! The answers must be typed, so do NOT submit handwritten forms.

Student_______Tiran Bakhchinyan,Mery Paryan,Melanya Torosyan,Aghavni Martirosyan,Lusine

Sargsyan _____________________ (state the name in full, i.e. first name and last name)

Group number: _________ (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.)

Watch the film (available at: https://vimeo.com/channels/1864552/549715999) and locate the

syntactic phenomena listed below.

● Write down all the definitions of the sentence and exemplify every definition with one sentence from
the interview (at least 5 definitions). (20 points) _______________________
Definitions Examples

A sentence as a syntactic unit with a subject and "The offices and bus station have been abandoned."

predicate: A sentence must have a subject (who or Subject: "The offices and bus station"

what the sentence is about) and a predicate (what is Predicate: "have been abandoned"

said about the subject).

A sentence as a declarative statement: "Everything has been vandalized."

A declarative sentence conveys information or makes

a statement.
A sentence as an utterance with cohesive meaning: "From the beginning of Western Civilization, poets

A sentence achieves unity by connecting ideas and philosophers have seen the experience of beauty

cohesively through syntax, semantics, and context. as calling us to the divine."

● What is an intonation contour? Exemplify the most vividly coloured contours and learn how to
reproduce the intonation from the interview (copy them out with the exact timeline (e.g.
2:20:33-2(hour(s)):20(minutes):33(seconds)) (10 points)) (at least 10). (20 points)
_______________________
Example (hour(s)): (minutes):(seconds)

01:53
My profits, my desires, my pleasures, and art has nothing
to say in response to this expect, yeah, go for it.

Since the world is disturbing, art should be disturbing too. 06:24

07:55
I don't care about the word art, because it's been so (...)
you know, discredited in such a word.

09:17
I know when I was a teenager, and I first came upon
Duchamp and I first came upon the ready mades I was
absolutely stunned in amazement.

09:38
It's not meant to be beautiful, but that doesn't mean that
there isn't something about it that doesn't captivate the
imagination, and I think captivate the imagination is the
key to what an artwork seeks to do.
 11:09
If you take say jeef Koons, jeefkoons has some things
which are truly astoundingly beautiful.

11:53
My profits, my desires, my pleasures, and art has nothing
to say in response to this expect, yeah, go for it.

Art needs creativity, and creativity is about sharing. 12:37

What's the use of beauty? 15:06

15:49
Since art is useless, it doesn't matter what you read, what
you look at, what you listen to.

16:01
We are besieged by message on every side titillated,
tempted by appetite, never at rest (...) and that is one
reason why beauty is disappearing from our world.

19:13
This building is boarded up, because nobody has a use for
it.Nobody has a use for it, because nobody wants to be in
it. Nobody wants to be in it, because the thing is so
damned ugly.

25:02
For Plato, beauty was first and foremost, the beauty of the
human face and the human form.

28:37
Cavalcanti; who is the master of Dante and Dante himself
definitely.

32:15

This was the Enlightenment vision which described our

world as though there was no place in it for gods and
spirits, no place for values and ideals, no place for
anything save the regular clockwork movement which
turned the moon around the Earth and the Earth around
the sun for no purpose whatsoever.

34:59
Shaftesbury is telling us to stop using thing, stop
explaining them and exploiting them, but look at them
(...) instead.

● Find examples of ellipses (at least 10) in the interview and copy them out with the exact timeline (e.g.
2(hour(s)):20(minutes):33(seconds)) (10 points) _______________________
Example (hour(s)): (minutes):(seconds)

00:24
If you had asked, educated people to describe the aimof
poetry,art, or music, they would've replied, beauty.

00:31
At any time between 1750 and 1930 if you had asked
educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art or
music, they would have replied, beauty.

01:04
It was not beauty, but originality, however, achieved art at
whatever moral cost that won the prizes.

01:18
Not only has art made a cult of ugliness, architecture too
has become soulless and sterile and is not just our
physical surroundings that have become ugly.

04:29
The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow
and affirmation in joy.

Anything can be art like a light going on and off. 05:36

-But you in fact contributed to the discrediting, didn't you 07:48
quit deliberately.

- Deliberately, yes!

10:38
The work of art is a work of art because we think of it as
such.

10:56
That is part of the artist's function is to make beautiful
make one see something as beautiful, something that
nobody thought was beautiful.- Like a can of shift.

What is the use of love, of fiendship, of worship? 15:27

Once a forge, now a cafe. 21:18

22:34
We have spiritual and moral needs too, and if those needs
go unsatisfied, so do we.

This was beauty to be contemplated but not possessed. 29:49

46:01
Well, the first thing that makes it art is because I say that
it is.

No one's actually said that, only me. 46:16

-You think it is beautiful? - Yeah, I do. 46:18

For Plato, beauty was a path to God while thinkers of the 51:21
Enlightenment saw art and beauty as ways in which we
save ourselves from meaningless routines and rise to a
higher level.

53:54
It shows the way in which deep and troubling emotions
can achieve unity and freedom through music.

58:12
And if you ask for the point of that you would have
learned that beauty is a value as important as truth and
goodness.
 ● Find examples of parcellation and explain the overtone, stylistic charge that the sentence found
expresses. (at least 10 examples) (20 points) _______________________
Example (hour(s)): (minutes):(seconds)

I'm Rogar Scruton, philosopher and writer. My trade is 02:29

to ask questions.

No longer does art have a sacred status. No longer 05:49

does it raise us to a higher moral or spiritual plane. It
is just one human gesture among. No more meaningful
than a laugh and a shout.

Art once made a cult of beauty, Now we have a cult of 06:14

ugliness instead.

That is why we find beauty in the naive art of children. 12:48

Children are not giving us ideas in the place of creative
images, nor are they wallowing in ugliness.

Everywhere you turn, there is ugliness and mutilation. 19:35

The offices and bus station have been abandoned. The
ony things at home here are the pigeons fouling the
pavements.Everything has been vandalized.
In a strange way, they make us feel at home. They 22:18
remind us that we have more than practical needs.

Plato was an idealist. He believed that human beings 24:18

are pilgrims and passenger in this world while always
aspiring beyond it to the eternal realm where we will
be united with God.

Desire is for the individual living in this world. It is an 25:35

urgent passion.

Batticelli's model was Simonetta Vespucci. Batticell! 29:37

loved her until the end of her short life and actually
asked to be buried at her feet.

Painters like Rembrandt are important for showing us 30:36

that beauty is an ordinary, everyday kind of thing. It
lies all around us.

But for Shaftesbury, It does not need a work of art to 34:41

present us with the beauty of the world. We simply
need to look on things with clear eyes and free
emotions.
You don't want to do anything with the baby. You don't 36:29
want to eat it, to put it to any use, or to conduct
scientific experiment on it.

● Find out examples of manysentences–onethough (1) and onesentence–manythoughts (2)

correlations (at least 6 cases – 3 per each) (20 points) _______________________
Example (hour(s)): (minutes):(seconds)

00:39(one sentence - many thoughts)

And if you had asked for the point of that, you would've
learned that beauty is a value as important as truth and
goodness.

01:31 (one sentence -many thoughts)

Our language, our music and our manners are
increasingly raucous, self-centered, and offensive, as if
beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives.

02:05(one sentence - many thoughts)

I think we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that
with it, we will lose the meaning of life.

02:03/03:18 (many sentences - one though)

think we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that with
it, we will lose the meaning of life. But our world has
turned its back on beauty, and because of that, we find
ourselves surrounded by ugliness and alienation.

03:29 (one sentence -many thoughts)

Twant to persuade you that beauty mattera, that it is not
just a subjective thing, but a universal need of human
beings.

15:39/21:47 (many sentences - one though)

Our consumer society puts usefulness first, and beauty is
no better than a side effect. Put usefulness first, and you
lose it. Put beauty first, and what you do will be useful
forever.

● Prepare a summary of the interview containing ALL the key (topic) sentences from the interview
paraphrased (at least 10 sentences) (10 points) _______________________

Roger Scruton thinks that we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that with it, we will lose the meaning

of life.

(According to Roger Scruton, we are losing beauty and the risk of losing sense of purpose in life.)

Art once made a cult of beauty but now we have a cult of ugliness instead.

(A worship of beauty was once created by art, we have a cult of ugly.)

Today's art shows us the world as it is.

(The world as it is shown in today's art.)

In our democratic culture, people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste.

(People in our democratic culture frequently believe that judging someone else's taste is
dangerous.)

Something has a value if it has a use, and what's the use of beauty?

(If anything has a purpose, it has value ,but what purpose has beauty serve?)

We simply need to look at things with clear eyes and free emotions.

(All we have to do is observe things objectively and without bias.)

If human beauty arouses desire, how can it have anything to do with the divine?

(How can human beauty have anything to do with the divine if it aroures desire?)

Our lives are full of leftovers.

(In our lives, there are things that we put away in a reason.)

Why not say that religion is a beauty substitute?

(Why not claim that religion serves as a stand - in for beauty ?)

Put usefulness first, and you lose it. Put beauty first, and what you do will be useful forever.

(You lose usefulness if you prioritise it.Prioritise beauty, and your work will always be

valuable.)
In other words, stop thinking about the way a building looks and think instead about what it does.

(We judge everything from the outside, but it's wrong, it's not important how 12/13

something looks, it's important what they do and how they do it.)

Beauty was the revelation of God in the here and now.

(Why not claim that religion serves as a stand - in for beauty?)

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

(Art has the power to transform life by bringing beauty to even the most difficult situations.)

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