Olympiad: film, stage and design puzzles ★★★

Tests: 3 of 12 right · Exam: 0 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 6 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 43 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 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

"fam, 24 drawings a sec, took a million years to draw. how many for 5 seconds"

1. 29 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 120 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 24 — no support
4. 1,000,000 — 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 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

"12 photos a second, ok so 6 seconds, no wait, 8 seconds of clay dog. how many photos"

1. 18 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 96 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. 72 — no support
4. 20 — 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 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Ruby says, "They filmed the ending first? That's sus" ("sus" means suspicious). What is the truth?

1. They had lost the first half of the script — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Shooting out of order is normal and saves time — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Films must be shot from start to finish — no support
4. The ending was filmed first by mistake — 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 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

A mate says, "That stunt fall's nothing, I'll do it off the garage roof, easy." What is the wise answer?

1. No: only because the garage roof might get damaged — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes: but only with a pillow on the ground underneath — no support
3. No: stunts are done by trained professionals with hidden safety gear — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Yes: if it looks easy in a film, it is easy at home too — 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 ✗

"The punch totally connected, no cap!" ("no cap" means honestly). What really happened?

1. The film was speeded up so nobody could feel the hit — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The punch hit a hidden pillow under the actor's shirt — no support
3. The actor really was hit, but was paid extra for it — no support
4. It missed; the angle, sound and reaction sold it — ✓ 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 6 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

Five minutes before curtain-up the costume splits and the stage manager says, "Bit of a pickle." What is she really saying?

1. The actor must just go on stage with the costume split open — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. It's a real problem, so grab the pins and tape fast — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nothing is wrong, she is just hungry for pickles — no support
4. The show must be cancelled at once — 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 kid on a market stall sells a "Nikey" hoodie with a wonky swoosh. What is it?

1. The real brand, sold cheaper on market stalls — ← Mova's choice · score 4
2. A knock-off copying the real brand's look — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A new brand that the real Nike company owns — score 4
4. A legal copy, because one letter has changed — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 33, line 9: «Packaging and brand names add a lot to prices, and shop own brands, sold under the shop's own name and usually cheaper, sometimes have very similar contents to…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «shop own brands» (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓

A café puts its logo of 50 tiny stars on a pencil, and it looks like a smudge. What did the designer forget?

1. To test the logo at a tiny size — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
2. To print it in more colours — score 5
3. To make the pencil much longer — score 6
4. To use even more, smaller stars on it — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 33, line 14: «Fine details vanish when a logo is shrunk, so designers test logos at tiny sizes and in one colour.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «test» (+3); the same doer «designers» (+3); the same place «tiny sizes» (+3); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓

Dad, barefoot: "Trod on a LEGO brick, literally died." What really happened, and why?

1. The brick was as sharp as a knife and cut his foot deeply — no support
2. He really died and then came back to life — no support
3. It didn't hurt, he was joking — no support
4. It hurt a lot: his weight pressed on one tiny hard spot — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 11: «Stepping on a brick hurts because all your weight presses on one tiny hard spot of the foot, which has lots of nerve endings.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «press» (+3); the same circumstance (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★★★ · right ✓

A flipbook's pages show a ball high, then lower, then lower, then on the ground. What do you see if you flip it from the back to the front?

1. The ball rises up from the ground — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. The ball falls down to the ground — no support
3. The ball stays still on the ground — no support
4. The ball rolls sideways along the ground — 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 ✗

In 1889 many artists called the Eiffel Tower ugly; now millions visit it. What does that show?

1. Nobody visits ugly buildings — no support
2. It was rebuilt to look prettier — no support
3. The artists were paid to hate it — ← Mova's choice · score 4
4. Taste in buildings can change — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 18, line 13: «The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama makes Infinity Mirror Rooms where mirrors and lights make the space look endless; art that fills a room is called an installat…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «art» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗

A Bristol director says "Proper job!" ("proper job" means well done) after take 9. Did the actors act badly in takes 1 to 8?

1. No: the director just likes the number nine more than the others — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Yes: a good actor always gets it right on the very first take — no support
3. Yes: every new take means the actors got it wrong again — no support
4. Not necessarily: a plane, a wobble or the light can mean another take — ✓ 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 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Determine the number of frames contained in a five-second shot projected at twenty-four frames per second.

1. Seven hundred and twenty — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Twenty-nine — no support
3. Forty-eight — no support
4. One hundred and twenty — ✓ 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 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the principal reason for which films are commonly shot out of the order of the story.

1. To film all scenes at one location together and save time and money — ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. Because the law requires that endings be filmed before beginnings — no support
3. To confuse the actors so that their performances seem more natural — no support
4. Because editors are unable to join shots in the order of the story — ← Mova's choice · score 9

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 22, line 8: «The editor joins the shots together in the right order after filming.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «join» (+4); the same place «right order» (+3); the same doer «editor» (+1); the same thing acted on «shots» (+1). The right option, 1, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Ascertain why a diagonal brace renders a square frame rigid.

1. It makes the square taller and therefore much stronger — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. It glues the corners together so that they cannot turn — no support
3. It divides the square into triangles, which cannot change shape — ✓ the right answer · score 5
4. It makes the square heavier, so it can no longer move at all — score 6

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 43, line 14: «A square frame can squash sideways, but a triangle cannot change shape without breaking a side, so a diagonal brace makes a square strong.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+4); the same doer «diagonal brace» (+1); the same thing acted on «square» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the films in correct chronological order, the earliest first.

1. Shrek, King Kong, Toy Story — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. King Kong, Shrek, Toy Story — no support
3. King Kong, Toy Story, Shrek — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Toy Story, King Kong, Shrek — 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

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