Exam question 2 · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★
A fence of ten metres in length bears a post every two metres, including one at each extremity. State the number of posts.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state · To what, where: number
This is exam question 2 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 fence of ten metres in length bears a post every two metres, including one at each extremity.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fence | det |
| 2 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 metres | case |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 metres | nummod |
| 5 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fence | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bears | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bears | compound |
| 8 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 metres | nmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 post | det |
| 10 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bears | conj |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 metres | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 post | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | including | including | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 post | appos |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 extremity | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 extremity | det |
| 19 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fence | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: State the number of posts.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 posts | case |
| 5 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the number of posts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
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 3
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Ten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ten | ten | 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/e2/