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Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

A cartoon says pear, pair, pare and peer all sound exactly the same. Fix it.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, you · What happens: say, pare, peer, sound, fix · To what, where: pear, pair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: A cartoon says pear, pair, pare and peer all sound exactly the same.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pair	punct
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pear	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pare	punct
8	pare	pare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 peer	cc
10	peer	peer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pare	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sound	advmod
12	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 peer	advcl
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	15 same	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sound	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a cartoon	pear and pair					tree rules
2	pare	infinitive							vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	peer	infinitive							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	sound	present						same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Fix it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Fix	obj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fix	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	imperative	you not said here	pair					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1

They really do all sound the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sound	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 sound	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	aux
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sound	advmod
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present · do-support	They	the same					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme

Option 2

"Pair" is the odd one out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pair	punct
2	Pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pair	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pair	the odd one				out property	tree rules

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

"Peer" has a different vowel sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peer	punct
2	Peer	peer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Peer	punct
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sound	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sound	amod
7	vowel	vowel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	compound
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Peer	a different vowel sound					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient

Option 4

"Pear" is the odd one out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pear	punct
2	Pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pear	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Pear	the odd one				out property	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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