Exam question 4 · Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming

Ascertain the reason for which chlorine is placed in swimming pool water.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, place · To what, where: reason, chlorine, pool water

This is exam question 4 of lesson 249 «Cricket, rugby, basketball, hockey and swimming» of the everyday 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 placed	obl
6	chlorine	chlorine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	aux:pass
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
10	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pool	compound
11	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 water	compound
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	place	present · passive		chlorine		pool water		for the reason	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination

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

To warm the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	to-infinitive		the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To make the water blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the water				blue property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To kill germs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 kill	mark
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	to-infinitive		germs					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 4

To help swimmers float

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	obj
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive		swimmers					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent swimmer=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	float	infinitive	swimmers not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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