Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

What would happen to the palindrome "level" if its last letter became "s"?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: last letter, level · What happens: happen, become, letter · To what, where: s

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 palindrome	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palindrome	det
6	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 level	punct
8	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palindrome	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 level	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 became	mark
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 letter	nmod:poss
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 letter	amod
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 s	punct
16	s	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 s	punct
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to the palindrome	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become a condition, not said to happen	past	level's last letter	s		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	letter		level			nom letter «communication transitive»: 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.

The options

Option 1

It would turn into a pangram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pangram	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pangram	det
6	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a pangram			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into pangram=Trajectory

Option 2

It would be an anagram of "level"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 anagram	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 anagram	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 anagram	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 anagram	det
5	anagram	anagram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 level	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 level	punct
8	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anagram	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 anagram	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a anagram				of level	tree rules

Option 3

It would still be a palindrome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 palindrome	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 palindrome	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 palindrome	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 palindrome	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 palindrome	det
6	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a palindrome			still		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would stop being a palindrome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 palindrome	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 palindrome	det
6	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	gerund		a palindrome					tree rules

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