Exam question 1 · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

Identify the term denoting a composition from which a particular letter has been deliberately excluded.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term · What happens: identify, denote, exclude · To what, where: term, composition, particular letter

This is exam question 1 of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 term	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 composition	det
6	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denoting	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 excluded	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 letter	det
10	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 letter	amod
11	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 excluded	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 excluded	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 excluded	aux:pass
14	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	15 excluded	advmod
15	excluded	exclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 composition	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	denote	gerund	the term not said here	a composition			vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot composition=Topic
3	exclude	present · perfect · passive		a particular letter	a composition	deliberately property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from which=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

A palindrome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 palindrome	det
2	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A pangram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pangram	det
2	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

An acrostic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 acrostic	det
2	acrostic	acrostic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A lipogram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lipogram	det
2	lipogram	lipogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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