Exam question 1 · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

Identify the term for a word or sentence that reads identically forwards and backwards.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sentence · What happens: identify, read · To what, where: term

This is exam question 1 of lesson 56 «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» 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	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 sentence	cc
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 reads	nsubj
10	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sentence	acl:relcl
11	identically	identically	ADV	_	10 reads	advmod
12	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	10 reads	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 backwards	cc
14	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	12 forwards	conj
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 term				for a word or sentence	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	read	present	sentence					forwards, identically property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

A pangram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pangram	det
2	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

An anagram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 anagram	det
2	anagram	anagram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A palindrome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 palindrome	det
2	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A spoonerism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spoonerism	det
2	spoonerism	spoonerism	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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