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title: Which animal is hidden across two words in "I saw a crab bit Tom"? — Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidde… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal is hidden across two words in "I saw a crab bit Tom"? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

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Which animal is hidden across two words in "I saw a crab bit Tom"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hide, see · **To what, where:** animal, two words, crab bit

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» of the English course of Mova's primary school. 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/57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words:t2:1
# text = Which animal is hidden across two words in "I saw a crab bit Tom"?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · passive |  | which animal |  | two words |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | a crab bit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words:t2:o1:1
# text = bat
1	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words:t2:o2:1
# text = cat
1	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words:t2:o3:1
# text = crab
1	crab	crab	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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rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:57-olympiad-riddles-lipograms-and-hidden-words:t2:o4:1
# text = rabbit
1	rabbit	rabbit	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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