Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

Which animal is hidden across two words in "I saw a crab bit Tom"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: hide, see · To what, where: animal, two words, crab bit

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 words	nummod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hidden	obl
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
13	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	compound
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bit	appos
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Tom	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hidden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive		which animal		two words			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	see in a quote	past	I	a crab bit					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

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

bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

crab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rabbit	rabbit	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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