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Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

Nan from Yorkshire: "Ey up, love, 'noon' reads t'same both ways, dun't it?" ("Ey up" means hello; "dun't it" means doesn't it.) Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nan, Ey · What happens: read, love, mean, do, be · To what, where: t'same, hello · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: Nan from Yorkshire: "Ey up, love, 'noon' reads t'same both ways, dun't it?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 reads	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Yorkshire	case
3	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nan	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
6	Ey	Ey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 love	nmod:poss
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 Ey	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 love	punct
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reads	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 noon	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 noon	punct
12	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 love	appos
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 noon	punct
14	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	t'same	t'same	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reads	obj
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 ways	det
17	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reads	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 du	punct
19	du	du	X	Foreign=Yes	17 ways	conj
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 it	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 du	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 ways	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read in a quote	present	Nan from Yorkshire	t'same				both ways obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent t'same=Topic
2	love in a quote		Ey						nom love «feeling 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.

Sentence 2: ("Ey up" means hello; "dun't it" means doesn't it.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ey	punct
3	Ey	Ey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 Ey	compound:prt
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ey	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 du	punct
10	du	du	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 means	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 du	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 du	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 du	punct
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 means	ccomp
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 it	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 does	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Ey	hello					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
2	mean		Ey not said here						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present		hello					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Is she right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ey					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, only names can be palindromes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 names	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 names	advmod
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 palindromes	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 palindromes	cop
7	palindromes	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can		palindromes					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, noon is a palindrome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 palindrome	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palindrome	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	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	present	noon	a palindrome					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but only in capital letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 letters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 letters	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 letters	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 letters	case
6	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letters	amod
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

No, noon has three letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 letters	nummod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	noon	three letters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

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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