Exam question 1 · Skating and sports safety

Identify the principal purpose of a warm-up undertaken prior to vigorous exercise.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, warm undertaken vigorous exercise · What happens: identify, purpose · To what, where: principal purpose

This is exam question 1 of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 purpose	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purpose	amod
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	14 exercise	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 exercise	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 exercise	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 warm	compound:prt
10	undertaken	undertaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 exercise	amod
11	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 exercise	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 prior	fixed
13	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 exercise	amod
14	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purpose	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal purpose of a warm undertaken vigorous exercise					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme
2	purpose		a warm undertaken vigorous exercise						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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

To ensure that no water need be consumed during the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 ensure	mark
2	ensure	ensure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 consumed	mark
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consumed	nsubj:pass
6	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 consumed	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 consumed	aux:pass
8	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ensure	ccomp
9	during	during	ADP	_	11 game	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 game	det
11	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consumed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ensure	to-infinitive							vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
2	consume	present · passive		no water			during the game		vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 2

To exhaust the muscles before the commencement of the game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 exhaust	mark
2	exhaust	exhaust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 muscles	det
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 exhaust	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 commencement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 commencement	det
7	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exhaust	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 game	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 game	det
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 commencement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exhaust	to-infinitive		the muscles			before the commencement of the game		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus muscle=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To render the muscles warmer and readier for exertion, thereby diminishing the risk of strain

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 render	mark
2	render	render	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 muscles	det
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 render	obj
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 render	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 readier	cc
7	readier	ready	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 warmer	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 exertion	case
9	exertion	exertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmer	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 diminishing	punct
11	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	12 diminishing	advmod
12	diminishing	diminish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 render	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 risk	det
14	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 diminishing	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 strain	case
16	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 risk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	render	to-infinitive	the muscles	warm property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Theme
2	diminish	gerund	the risk of strain	thereby property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer risk=Patient
3	risk		strain		nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

To render protective equipment unnecessary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 render	mark
2	render	render	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	protective	protective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 equipment	amod
4	equipment	equipment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 render	obj
5	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 render	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	render	to-infinitive		protective equipment				unnecessary property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=Theme

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