Exam question 1 · Olympiad: the Spelling Bee

Identify the correct orthography of the word denoting a regular pattern of beats.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, word, beats · What happens: identify, denote, pattern · To what, where: correct orthography, regular pattern

This is exam question 1 of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the English 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 orthography	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 orthography	amod
4	orthography	orthography	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 orthography	nmod
8	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 word	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pattern	det
10	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pattern	amod
11	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 denoting	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 beats	case
13	beats	beat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pattern	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the correct orthography of the word	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent orthography=Theme
2	denote	gerund	the word not said here	a regular pattern of beats	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pattern=Topic
3	pattern		beats		nom pattern «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

rythm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rythm	rythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

rhytm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rhytm	rhytm	PROPN	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

rhythym

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rhythym	rhythym	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rhythm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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