Exam question 2 · Grammar puzzles, part two

Identify the term designating a word or phrase which reads identically in both directions.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, term, word · What happens: identify, designate, read · To what, where: term, word, directions

This is exam question 2 of lesson 36 «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 term	det
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	designating	designate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 term	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designating	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 phrase	cc
8	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	conj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 reads	nsubj
10	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl
11	identically	identically	ADV	_	10 reads	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 directions	case
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 directions	det
14	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reads	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the term			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	designate	gerund	the term not said here	a word or phrase			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	read	present	a word or phrase		both directions	identically property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A pangram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pangram	det
2	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A palindrome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 palindrome	det
2	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

An anagram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 anagram	det
2	anagram	anagram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

An isogram

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 isogram	det
2	isogram	isogram	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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