Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★
"bro's thinking of a number 1 to 32 and says i'll never get it in under a million guesses lol. how many yes/no qs do i actually need"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thinking, bro · What happens: say, not get, need, think · To what, where: thinking, million guesses, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» of the AI 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bro | case |
| 4 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | nmod |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 number | flat |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 32 | case |
| 10 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 1 | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 says | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 guesses | case |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 guesses | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 million | det |
| 21 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 guesses | nummod |
| 22 | guesses | guess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obl |
| 23 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 16 get | discourse |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 many | advmod |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 yes/no | amod |
| 27 | yes/no | yes/no | X | _ | 12 says | ccomp |
| 28 | qs | q | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 yes/no | flat |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 need | aux |
| 30 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 need | nsubj |
| 31 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 32 need | advmod |
| 32 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 yes/no | advcl:relcl |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 yes/no | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | bro's thinking of a number | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | future | bro's thinking of a number = thinking | thinking | million guesses | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | need in a quote | present · do-support | bro's thinking of a number = thinking | actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | think in a quote | bro | a number | nom thinking «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
16
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
32
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/t1/