Exam question 2 · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

Ascertain which of the following constitutes an anagram of "listen" bearing the meaning "quiet".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, anagram · What happens: ascertain, follow, listen, bear · To what, where: following constitutes, meaning

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 constitutes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 constitutes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 constitutes	det
5	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 constitutes	amod
6	constitutes	constitute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 anagram	det
8	anagram	anagram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 constitutes	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 listen	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 anagram	acl:relcl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
13	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 listen	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meaning	det
15	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bearing	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 quiet	punct
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meaning	appos
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 quiet	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the following constitutes	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitute=Topic
2	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	listen in a quote	infinitive	a anagram not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	bear	gerund	a anagram not said here	the meaning	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient

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

Tinsel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Inlets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inlets	inlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Enlist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enlist	enlist	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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