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description: Identify the correct orthography of the word denoting a regular pattern of beats. Exam question 1 of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Olympiad: the Spelling Bee

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Identify the correct orthography of the word denoting a regular pattern of beats.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, word, beats · **What happens:** identify, denote, pattern · **To what, where:** correct orthography, regular pattern

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 55 «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee:e1:1
# text = Identify the correct orthography of the word denoting a regular pattern of beats.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	orthography	orthography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the correct orthography of the word |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent orthography=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | gerund | the word *not said here* | a regular pattern of beats |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pattern=Topic |
| 3 | **pattern** |  | beats |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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rythm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee:e1:o1:1
# text = rythm
1	rythm	rythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rhytm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee:e1:o2:1
# text = rhytm
1	rhytm	rhytm	PROPN	ADD	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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rhythym

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee:e1:o3:1
# text = rhythym
1	rhythym	rhythym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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rhythm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee:e1:o4:1
# text = rhythm
1	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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