Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★
Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party! Four of us shook hands with everyone, so 16 handshakes." How many were there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Four, many · What happens: shake, be · To what, where: hands
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thabo | Thabo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Town | case |
| 3 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Town | compound |
| 4 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Thabo | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 party | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 party | punct |
| 7 | Lekker | Lekker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 party | compound |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thabo | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thabo | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Four of us shook hands with everyone, so 16 handshakes."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Four | nmod |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 shook | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 handshakes | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 16 | advmod |
| 10 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 handshakes | nummod |
| 11 | handshakes | handshake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 handshakes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 handshakes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | Four of us | hands | with everyone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with everyone=Co-Patient |
Sentence 3: How many were there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | many | there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
12; each shakes three hands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 shakes | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 shakes | punct |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 shakes | nsubj |
| 4 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hands | nummod |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shakes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | 12 | three hands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
6; a handshake needs two hands and nobody shakes their own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 needs | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 handshake | det |
| 4 | handshake | handshake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needs | nsubj |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hands | nummod |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 needs | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shakes | cc |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 shakes | nsubj |
| 10 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 needs | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shakes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | 6 | two hands | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | present | nobody | hands's own | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent own=Patient |
Option 3
16, four times four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 16 | punct |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 16 | conj |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
8, two each
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 two | punct |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 8 | conj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 8 | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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