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Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

An old teacher is said to have told a student, "You have hissed my mystery lectures." What did he mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, my, teacher · What happens: say, tell, hiss, lecture, mean · To what, where: old teacher, student, mystery lectures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 56 «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» of the English course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: An old teacher is said to have told a student, "You have hissed my mystery lectures."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teacher	amod
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux:pass
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 told	mark
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 student	det
10	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hissed	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hissed	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hissed	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hissed	aux
15	hissed	hiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lectures	nmod:poss
17	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lectures	compound
18	lectures	lecture	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hissed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		a old teacher					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · perfect			a student				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent student=Recipient
3	hiss in a quote	present · perfect	You	my mystery lectures					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Topic
4	lecture in a quote		my						nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What did he mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	teacher						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You have hissed at all my lectures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hissed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hissed	aux
3	hissed	hiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 lectures	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lectures	det:predet
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lectures	nmod:poss
7	lectures	lecture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	present · perfect	You			my lectures			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at lecture=Location
2	lecture		my						nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

You have kissed my mister lectures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kissed	aux
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lectures	nmod:poss
5	mister	mister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lectures	compound
6	lectures	lecture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kissed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	present · perfect	You	my mister lectures					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Co-Agent
2	lecture		my						nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

You have mist my hysterical lectures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lectures	nmod:poss
5	hysterical	hysterical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lectures	amod
6	lectures	lecture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	You	mist					tree rules
2	lecture		my						nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You have missed my history lectures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 missed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 missed	aux
3	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lectures	nmod:poss
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lectures	compound
6	lectures	lecture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present · perfect	You	my history lectures					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lecture=Stimulus
2	lecture		my						nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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