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Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

Your mate says, "An anagram can drop a letter if it's hard, innit." Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, anagram, you · What happens: say, drop, be, innit, put · To what, where: letter, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: Your mate says, "An anagram can drop a letter if it's hard, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 drop	punct
6	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 anagram	det
7	anagram	anagram	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 drop	aux
9	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 letter	det
11	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drop	obj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 hard	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hard	expl
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hard	cop
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drop	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drop	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drop in a quote	can	a anagram	a letter					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	a anagram not said here					hard property	tree rules
4	innit in a quote	infinitive	a anagram not said here						tree rules

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: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		mate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Every letter must be used exactly once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 once	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 used	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	must · passive		every letter				once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

You may drop up to two letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 drop	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 drop	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 letters	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 letters	nummod
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop up	may	You			two letters			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to letter=Trajectory

Option 3

You may add in any letter you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 add	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 add	aux
3	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 letter	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 add	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 letter	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	may	You			any letter			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	like	present	you	any letter not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot letter=Theme

Option 4

One letter may be dropped if it is hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 letter	nummod
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dropped	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dropped	aux:pass
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 hard	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hard	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hard	cop
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dropped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	may · passive		One letter					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present						hard property	tree rules

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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