Exam question 2 · Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★

Determine the purpose of concealing from all participants which beverage contains sugar.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, purpose, beverage · What happens: determine, conceal, contain · To what, where: purpose, participants, sugar

This is exam question 2 of lesson 37 «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 concealing	mark
5	concealing	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 purpose	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 participants	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 participants	det
8	participants	participant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 concealing	obl
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 beverage	det
10	beverage	beverage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contains	nsubj
11	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 participants	acl:relcl
12	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 contains	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the purpose		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic
2	conceal	gerund	the purpose not said here		all participants	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from participant=Beneficiary
3	contain	present	which beverage	sugar		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sugar=Theme

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 every child consumes sugar

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	_	6 consumes	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consumes	nsubj
6	consumes	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ensure	ccomp
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consumes	obj

#	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	every child	sugar					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Asset

Option 2

To reduce the duration of the experiment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 reduce	mark
2	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duration	det
4	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduce	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 experiment	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 experiment	det
7	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 duration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	to-infinitive		the duration of the experiment					vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer duration=Patient

Option 3

To improve the flavour of the beverages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 improve	mark
2	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flavour	det
4	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improve	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 beverages	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beverages	det
7	beverages	beverage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flavour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	to-infinitive		the flavour of the beverages					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flavour=Patient
2	flavour			the beverages					nom flavour «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To prevent expectation from influencing what is observed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 prevent	mark
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	expectation	expectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prevent	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 influencing	mark
5	influencing	influence	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 prevent	advcl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 observed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 observed	aux:pass
8	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 influencing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive	expectation	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer expectation=Theme
2	influence	gerund		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	observe	present · passive		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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