Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words
Which sentence leaves out the letter "a"?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: leave out · To what, where: letter
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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 sentence | det |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | nsubj |
| 3 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 leaves | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaves | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 letter | appos |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave out | present | which sentence | the letter | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
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
A big dog slept in the sun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun. | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun. | det |
| 7 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | a big dog | the sun. | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun.=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The big dog slept in the sun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun. | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun. | det |
| 7 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the big dog | the sun. | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun.=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The big cat slept in the sun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cat | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sun. | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun. | det |
| 7 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | participle | the big cat not said here | the sun. | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun.=Location |
Option 4
The dog sat in the sun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sun. | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun. | det |
| 6 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the dog | the sun. | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun.=Location |
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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