Exam question 1 · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★
A drawer contains socks of three colours. Determine the least number which must be drawn unseen to ensure a matching pair.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drawer, you · What happens: contain, determine, draw, ensure, match · To what, where: socks, least number, matching pair
This is exam question 1 of lesson 194 «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world 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.
The question
Sentence 1: A drawer contains socks of three colours.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drawer | det |
| 2 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contains | nsubj |
| 3 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contains | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 colours | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 colours | nummod |
| 7 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 socks | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contains | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | a drawer | socks of three colours | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sock=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine the least number which must be drawn unseen to ensure a matching pair.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 drawn | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drawn | aux:pass |
| 8 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 number | acl:relcl |
| 9 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drawn | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ensure | mark |
| 11 | ensure | ensure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drawn | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pair | det |
| 13 | matching | match | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 pair | amod |
| 14 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ensure | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the least number | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 2 | draw | must · passive | the least number | unseen property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ensure | to-infinitive | a matching pair | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pair=Theme | |||||
| 4 | match | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word 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/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/e1/