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Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

Your mate: "Nothing's spelled wrong in a dictionary, innit, so the answer's 'nothing'." What is the trick?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: trick · What happens: spell, innit, be · To what, where: mate, dictionary

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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: Your mate: "Nothing's spelled wrong in a dictionary, innit, so the answer's 'nothing'."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spelled	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 spelled	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 spelled	punct
5	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 spelled	nsubj:pass
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spelled	aux:pass
7	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spelled	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dictionary	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dictionary	det
11	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spelled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spelled	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 nothing	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 answer	case
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 spelled	obl
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell in a quote	present · passive		Your mate		a dictionary		nothing obl; wrong property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in dictionary=Manner
2	innit in a quote	infinitive							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: What is the trick?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the trick						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Dictionaries are really full of mistakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dictionaries	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 full	advmod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 mistakes	case
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dictionaries					of mistakes; full property	tree rules

Option 2

The riddle simply has no answer at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 riddle	det
2	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 answer	det
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 answer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the riddle	no answer		all		simply property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The word "wrong" is spelled W-R-O-N-G

The tree, 10 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spelled	nsubj:pass
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 word	appos
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spelled	aux:pass
7	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	W	W	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 spelled	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 R	punct
10	R	R	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 W	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 O	punct
12	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 W	conj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 N	punct
14	N	N	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 W	conj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 G	punct
16	G	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 W	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	present · passive		the word					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme w=Manner

Option 4

The answer is the word "dictionary"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 dictionary	punct
7	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	appos
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 dictionary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the answer	the word					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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