Exam question 4 · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

Determine the term denoting a sentence comprising every letter of the alphabet.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term, sentence · What happens: determine, denote, comprise, letter · To what, where: term, sentence, letter, alphabet

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	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 Determine	obj
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 term	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sentence	det
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoting	obj
7	comprising	comprise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sentence	acl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 letter	det
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comprising	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 alphabet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 alphabet	det
12	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 letter	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the term	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
2	denote	gerund	the term not said here	a sentence	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sentence=Topic
3	comprise	gerund	a sentence not said here	every letter of the alphabet	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme letter=Pivot
4	letter			the alphabet	nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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

A lipogram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A kenning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

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 · ✓ the right answer

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.

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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