Exam question 3 · Olympiad: real languages and codes
Ascertain the decoding of "JTMBOE", given that each letter of the plain text has been advanced by one place in the alphabet.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one place · What happens: ascertain, give, advance, decode, letter · To what, where: decoding, letter, JTMBOE, plain text
This is exam question 3 of lesson 59 «Olympiad: real languages and codes» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 decoding | det |
| 3 | decoding | decoding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 JTMBOE | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 JTMBOE | punct |
| 6 | JTMBOE | JTMBOE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 decoding | nmod |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 JTMBOE | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decoding | acl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 advanced | mark |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 letter | det |
| 12 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advanced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 text | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 text | det |
| 15 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 text | amod |
| 16 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 letter | nmod |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 advanced | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 advanced | aux:pass |
| 19 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 given | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 place | nummod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advanced | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 alphabet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 alphabet | det |
| 25 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the decoding of JTMBOE | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decoding=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the decoding of JTMBOE not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | advance | present · perfect · passive | one place in the alphabet | each letter of the plain text | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | decode | JTMBOE | nom decoding «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | letter | the plain text | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
ITLAND
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ITLAND | ITLAND | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ISLANE
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ISLANE | ISLANE | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
ISLAND
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ISLAND | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
KUNCPF
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KUNCPF | KUNCPF | PROPN | 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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