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description: Determine the term denoting a sentence comprising every letter of the alphabet. Exam question 4 of lesson 56 «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders

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Determine the term denoting a sentence comprising every letter of the alphabet.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, term, sentence · **What happens:** determine, denote, comprise, letter · **To what, where:** term, sentence, letter, alphabet

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 56 «Olympiad: word puzzles — anagrams, palindromes, word ladders» 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/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders:e4:1
# text = Determine the term denoting a sentence comprising every letter of the alphabet.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic |
| 2 | **denote** | gerund | the term *not said here* | a sentence |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sentence=Topic |
| 3 | **comprise** | gerund | a sentence *not said here* | every letter of the alphabet |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme letter=Pivot |
| 4 | **letter** |  |  | the alphabet |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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A lipogram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders:e4:o1:1
# text = A lipogram
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lipogram	lipogram	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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A kenning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders:e4:o2:1
# text = A kenning
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kenning	kenning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A palindrome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders:e4:o3:1
# text = A palindrome
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palindrome	palindrome	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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A pangram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders:e4:o4:1
# text = A pangram
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pangram	pangram	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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