Exam question 3 · Grammar puzzles, part two
Which of the following words constitutes an anagram of "listen"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, constitute, listen · To what, where: anagram
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 constitutes | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 constitutes | obl |
| 6 | constitutes | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 anagram | det |
| 8 | anagram | anagram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 constitutes | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 listen | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 listen | punct |
| 11 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anagram | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 listen | punct |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 constitutes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | constitute | present | a anagram | of the following words | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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
Linnet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Enlist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enlist | enlist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Lessen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lessen | lessen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lessen | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Glisten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glisten | glisten | 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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