Exam question 2 · Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★

Identify the principal deficiency of a survey conducted exclusively among persons already queuing for the product in question.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, persons · What happens: identify, conduct, queue · To what, where: principal deficiency, survey

This is exam question 2 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: check the claim and spot the trick ★★★» of the politics 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 deficiency	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deficiency	amod
4	deficiency	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 survey	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 survey	det
7	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deficiency	nmod
8	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 survey	acl
9	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	8 conducted	advmod
10	among	among	ADP	_	11 persons	case
11	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 conducted	obl
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 queuing	advmod
13	queuing	queue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 persons	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 product	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 product	det
16	product	product	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 queuing	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 question	case
18	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 product	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal deficiency of a survey		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deficiency=Theme
2	conduct	participle		a survey not said here	among persons; exclusively property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among person=Destination
3	queue	gerund	persons not said here		for the product in question	tree rules

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

Surveys may not lawfully be conducted out of doors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surveys	survey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conducted	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 conducted	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 conducted	advmod
4	lawfully	lawfully	ADV	_	6 conducted	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 conducted	aux:pass
6	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 doors	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 doors	case
9	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conducted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not conduct	may · passive		Surveys		doors		lawfully property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme out door=Destination

Option 2

The number of persons consulted is excessively large

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 persons	case
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 persons	acl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 large	cop
7	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consult	participle		persons not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the number of persons					excessively, large property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The persons consulted do not represent all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 represent	nsubj
3	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 persons	acl
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 represent	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 represent	advmod
6	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 represent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consult	participle		the persons not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not represent	present · do-support	the persons	all					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Persons in a queue are incapable of answering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 incapable	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 queue	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 queue	det
4	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Persons	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 incapable	cop
6	incapable	incapable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 answering	mark
8	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 incapable	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Persons in a queue					incapable property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	gerund	Persons in a queue not said here						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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