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title: Identify the term designating a word or phrase which reads identical… — Grammar puzzles, part two · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the term designating a word or phrase which reads identically in both directions. Exam question 2 of lesson 36 «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language 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 2 · Grammar puzzles, part two

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/36-grammar-puzzles-part-two/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:36-grammar-puzzles-part-two:e2:1
# text = Identify the term designating a word or phrase which reads identically in both directions.
1	Identify	identify	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	designating	designate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	identically	identically	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 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 |

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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 pangram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:36-grammar-puzzles-part-two:e2:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A palindrome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:36-grammar-puzzles-part-two:e2:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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An anagram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:36-grammar-puzzles-part-two:e2:o3:1
# text = An anagram
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	anagram	anagram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An isogram

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:36-grammar-puzzles-part-two:e2:o4:1
# text = An isogram
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	isogram	isogram	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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