Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders
Change CAT into DOG, one letter at a time. Which ladder is legal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, ladder · What happens: change, be · To what, where: CAT
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: Change CAT into DOG, one letter at a time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | CAT | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Change | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 DOG | case |
| 4 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Change | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 letter | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 letter | nummod |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 DOG | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Change | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Change | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | imperative | you not said here | CAT | time | into DOG and one letter result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent cat=Patient into dog=Result |
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: Which ladder is legal?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 ladder | det |
| 2 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 legal | cop |
| 4 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 legal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which ladder | legal property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
CAT, COT, COG, DOG
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAT | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 COT | punct |
| 3 | COT | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 COG | punct |
| 5 | COG | cog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 DOG | punct |
| 7 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
CAT, BAT, BOG, DOG
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAT | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 BAT | punct |
| 3 | BAT | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 BOG | punct |
| 5 | BOG | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 DOG | punct |
| 7 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
CAT, DOT, DOG
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAT | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 DOT | punct |
| 3 | DOT | dot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 DOG | punct |
| 5 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
CAT, CAG, DOG
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAT | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 CAG | punct |
| 3 | CAG | cag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 DOG | punct |
| 5 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CAT | conj |
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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