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Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 8 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 42 of the arts course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓

"lowkey my sky looks mid so I added black to make it brighter" ("mid" means so-so). What would really help?

  • 1. White mixed into everything, sky and land — no support
  • 2. Darker colours beside the sky, for contrast — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11
  • 3. More black, mixed right into the blue — no support
  • 4. Leaving it overnight so it dries brighter — score 11

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 11, tied with another option at 11 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 13, line 4: «Colours opposite each other on the wheel, like orange and blue, make each other shout; adding white makes a tint, adding black makes a shade, and shadows are r…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «colours» (+4); a different action (counts against) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓

Nan reckons The Starry Night was painted after Van Gogh died, "cos he only got famous later". What is the truth?

  • 1. He painted it in 1853, the year he was born, as a baby — no support
  • 2. She is right, friends painted it from his notes in 1891 — no support
  • 3. She is right, it was painted by his brother Theo in 1900 — no support
  • 4. He painted it in 1889 and died in 1890; the fame came after — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 39, line 8: «It is often said that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life; historians say he may have sold a few more, but he was not famous until after he died in 189…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «die» (+4); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Ollie draws the far-away people bigger "so you can see them properly". What happens to his picture?

  • 1. It loses its depth, because far things should look smaller — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. It looks deeper and much more real than before — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 3. Nothing changes, since size has nothing to do with distance — no support
  • 4. The near people now look far away and the far ones near — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 23, line 6: «A flipbook shows how animation works: still pictures shown quickly look like movement.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+4); the same doer «pictures» (+1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Josh says, "Guernica's literally the size of a football pitch." What is the real size?

  • 1. Exactly the size of a football pitch, about 100 metres — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. About 77 centimetres, the same as the Mona Lisa — no support
  • 3. Almost 8 metres wide: big, but nowhere near a pitch — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Smaller than a postage stamp, but it looks big in photos — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Dad: "The Louvre? We'll see the whole lot before lunch, easy." What is likely to happen?

  • 1. They finish the whole museum in ten minutes — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. They see a little and get museum fatigue — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. They are not allowed to look at more than one room — no support
  • 4. They see every single object by lunchtime — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Put the steps of drawing a head in order.

  • 1. Big shapes, then shading, then construction lines, then details — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Shading, then details, then big shapes, then construction lines — no support
  • 3. Details, then shading, then big shapes, then construction lines — no support
  • 4. Light big shapes, then construction lines, then details, then shading — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

A painting class has 24 boys of European descent. About how many might have red-green colour blindness?

  • 1. 1 — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. 24 — no support
  • 3. 12 — no support
  • 4. 2 — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

The art teacher looks at Kai's photo with the horizon dead in the middle and says, "Hmm, not ideal." What does she really mean?

  • 1. The horizon should go right at the very top edge — no support
  • 2. The photo is so bad that it must be deleted at once — ← Mova's choice · score 5
  • 3. Move the horizon onto a third line — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. The photo is perfect, leave it exactly as it is — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 12, line 8: «A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «photo» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Tom from Glasgow says it's dreich ("dreich" means grey and gloomy) and paints the sky pure grey. His friend says, "Shadows and greys can have colour in them." Who is right?

  • 1. Tom: grey skies have no colour in them at all — ← Mova's choice · score 6
  • 2. The friend: greys and shadows often hold blues and purples — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 3. Tom: real painters only use black and white for weather — score 5
  • 4. The friend: any colour at all, like bright pink, looks right — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 13, line 11: «Shadows usually have colour in them, and outdoor shadows, such as on snow, often look blue or purple; the French Impressionists of the 1870s became famous for…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+3); the same thing acted on «colour» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-3). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Sophie says, "Change 30 percent of a picture and it's yours." Is that a real rule?

  • 1. Yes: but only 10 percent needs changing for drawings — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Yes: 30 percent is the official rule for every country — no support
  • 3. No: what matters is whether the original is still recognisable — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. No: the rule is really 50 percent, not 30 percent — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

An Aussie kid says Van Gogh painted heaps ("heaps" means lots) of sunflowers in 1888 and 1889. Were they all fresh?

  • 1. No, they go from fresh to wilting — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. No, they were all dead, dried flowers — no support
  • 3. Yes, he only painted plastic sunflowers — ← Mova's choice · score 4
  • 4. Yes, every one is a fresh, open flower — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 35, line 14: «Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «paint» (+4); the same doer «van» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓

A pavement painting looks like a deep hole, but only from one spot. Why?

  • 1. People see it from one spot because the rest is fenced off — no support
  • 2. The chalk has dug a real hole into the pavement — no support
  • 3. It uses perspective tricks that work from one viewpoint — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6
  • 4. The hole is real, and the chalk only colours its sides — no support

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 15: «3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «use» (+4); the same thing acted on «perspective tricks» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓

Determine the colour obtained when white is added to the complementary colour of purple.

  • 1. A light yellow, which is a tint — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 2. A light purple, which is a tint — no support
  • 3. A dark yellow, which is a shade — no support
  • 4. A light green, which is a tint — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the arrangement of works in correct chronological order, the earliest first.

  • 1. The Great Wave, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Guernica, Girl with a Pearl Earring — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Guernica, The Great Wave — no support
  • 3. Sistine Chapel ceiling, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Great Wave, Guernica — ✓ the right answer · no support
  • 4. Guernica, The Great Wave, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Sistine Chapel ceiling — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain the number of intersections produced by the grid employed in the rule of thirds.

  • 1. Nine — ← Mova's choice · no support
  • 2. Three — no support
  • 3. Six — no support
  • 4. Four — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Which of the following statements concerning the Great Wall of China is consistent with the established facts?

  • 1. It is too narrow to be seen from the Moon with the naked eye — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
  • 2. It is the only human structure visible from the Moon — no support
  • 3. It is clearly visible from the Moon with the naked eye — score 6
  • 4. It is as wide as a motorway along its whole length — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 42, line 15: «The Great Wall of China is very long but only about as wide as a road, so it cannot be seen from the Moon with the naked eye.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «see» (+4); the same place «moon» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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