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title: The cleverest tests hide the answer from the people who judge: if no… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The cleverest tests hide the answer from the people who judge: if nobody knows which party drink had the sugar, nobody's hopes can colour what they see. Who acts: cleverest tests, people, nobody, party drink. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mov
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# Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 3

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The cleverest tests hide the answer from the people who judge: if nobody knows which party drink had the sugar, nobody's hopes can colour what they see.

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**Who acts:** cleverest tests, people, nobody, party drink, hopes · **What happens:** hide, judge, know, have, colour, see · **To what, where:** answer, sugar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cleverest tests, people, nobody, party drink), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:3
# text = The cleverest tests hide the answer from the people who judge: if nobody knows which party drink had the sugar, nobody's hopes can colour what they see.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cleverest	clever	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	judge	judge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
17	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	colour	colour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | the cleverest tests | the answer |  |  |  | from the people | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent answer=Patient from people=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **judge** | present | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past | which party drink | the sugar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |
| 5 | **colour** | can | nobody's hopes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | present | hopes *= hope* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 7 | **hope** |  | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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