Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

Which word, written backwards, makes another real word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word · What happens: write, make · To what, where: word, real word

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 written	punct
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 word	acl
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 written	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 word	punct
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 word	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle		which word not said here				backwards property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	which word	another real word					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset word=Product

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

heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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

ton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

piano

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	piano	piano	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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