Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★

Ollie: "Snail goes up 3, slides 2, so 1 metre a day. 10-metre well, 10 days, no cap." What is the real answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Snail, Ollie, real answer · What happens: go up, slide, be · To what, where: 3, 2

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 194 «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world 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

Sentence 1: Ollie: "Snail goes up 3, slides 2, so 1 metre a day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 slides	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
4	Snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 slides	advcl
6	up	up	ADV	_	7 3	advmod
7	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slides	punct
9	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 slides	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 day	advmod
13	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 metre	nummod
14	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	compound
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slides	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 slides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up in a quote	present	Snail	3					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	slide in a quote	present	Ollie	2			day		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Agent

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: 10-metre well, 10 days, no cap."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metre	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 metre	punct
3	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 metre	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 metre	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 metre	appos
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is the real answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Day 5; it climbs 3 metres every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 climbs	nsubj
2	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Day	flat
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Day	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 climbs	nsubj
5	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climbs	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbs	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Day	3 metres			day		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location metre=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Day 8; on the last day it climbs out before it can slip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 climbs	nsubj
2	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Day	flat
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 climbs	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbs	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 climbs	nsubj
9	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 climbs	compound:prt
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 slip	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 slip	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 slip	aux
14	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 climbs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb out	present	Day				day		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slip	can	it						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

It never gets out; it always slides back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 gets	advmod
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 gets	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 slides	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slides	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 slides	advmod
8	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	parataxis
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 slides	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get out	present	It						vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slide back	present	it					always property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Day 10; one metre a day for ten metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 10	nmod:unmarked
2	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 metre	nummod
5	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 10	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 metres	case
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 metres	nummod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 day	nmod

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

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