Exam question 3 · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words
Select the word which, among "pear", "pair", "pare" and "peer", is not pronounced in the same manner as the others.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: select, pare, not pronounce · To what, where: word, peer, same manner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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 | Select | select | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Select | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pear | punct |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 pear | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pear | punct |
| 8 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Select | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pear | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pair | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pair | punct |
| 12 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pear | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pair | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pare | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pare | punct |
| 16 | pare | pare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Select | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pare | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pronounced | cc |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 peer | punct |
| 20 | peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pronounced | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 peer | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 peer | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 pronounced | advmod |
| 25 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pare | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 manner | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 manner | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 manner | amod |
| 29 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pronounced | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 others | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 others | det |
| 32 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pronounced | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | imperative | you not said here | the word | among pear | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pare in a quote | infinitive | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not pronounce | present · passive | peer | the same manner | as the others | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in manner=Manner |
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
Pair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Pear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Peer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peer | peer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Pare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pare | pare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pare | imperative | you not said here | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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