Exam question 2 · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

Ascertain the object that "has keys but cannot open locks" in the well-known riddle.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, object · What happens: ascertain, have, not open, know · To what, where: object, keys, locks, known riddle

This is exam question 2 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 has	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
7	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 open	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 open	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 open	advmod
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 has	conj
12	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 open	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 locks	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 riddle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 riddle	det
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 known	advmod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 well	punct
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 riddle	amod
19	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 open	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the object			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	the object	keys			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient
3	not open in a quote	can	the object not said here	locks	the known riddle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme in riddle=Location
4	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 padlock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A piano

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	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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