Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

A cartoon says "dad" and "add" are both palindromes. Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, dad, you · What happens: say, be, fix · To what, where: both palindromes, add · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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: A cartoon says "dad" and "add" are both palindromes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palindromes	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 add	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 add	punct
9	add	add	NOUN	_	5 dad	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 add	punct
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 palindromes	cop
12	both	both	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palindromes	amod
13	palindromes	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	dad and add	both palindromes					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: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	add					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"add" is a palindrome, but "dad" is not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct
2	add	add	NOUN	_	6 palindrome	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 add	punct
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
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 is	cc
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dad	punct
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dad	punct
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 palindrome	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	add	a palindrome					tree rules
2	not be	present	dad						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"dad" is, but "add" backwards is "dda"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dad	punct
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dad	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dad	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dda	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 dda	cc
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 add	punct
8	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 dda	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 add	punct
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	8 add	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dda	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dda	punct
13	dda	dda	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dad	appos
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dda	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	dad		tree rules
2	add speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		backwards property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present	dda		tree rules

Option 3

Neither of them is a palindrome at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 palindrome	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Neither	nmod
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
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 palindrome	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Neither	a palindrome		all			tree rules

Option 4

They are both palindromes, so it's right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 palindromes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 palindromes	cop
3	both	both	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palindromes	amod
4	palindromes	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 right	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 right	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palindromes	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	both palindromes					tree rules
2	is	present	it					right 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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