Olympiad: Breakthrough puzzles in made-up languages
Tests: 0 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 2 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 58 of the english 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 ✗
Your mate says, "You can't do UKLO unless you already speak loads of languages." Put him right.
- 1. You must speak three languages — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Everything you need is in the data — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. You must already speak it — no support
- 4. Only grown-ups may take part — 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 ✗
Kai, from Liverpool: "Tolo's dead easy, our kid, 'dogs' is mirus." ("Dead" means very.) What is right?
- 1. kapamiru — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. mirus — no support
- 3. mirumirumiru — no support
- 4. mirumiru — ✓ 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 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
A Ruvan cartoon says the first word always does the seeing, like in English. Fix it.
- 1. The -n ending shows who sees, not the order — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The last word in the sentence always sees — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. The cartoon is right; the first word sees — score 4
- 4. Nobody ever sees anybody in Ruvan — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 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 20, line 7: «A good check is to swap your meaning into the sentence and see if it still makes sense.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «see» (+3); the same doer «good check» (+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 ✗
Kel: what number is "ro lan pa"?
- 1. 9 — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. 31 — no support
- 3. 15 — no support
- 4. 16 — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Nam: what does "ka-nalu" mean?
- 1. You swim — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. I swam — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. I will swim — no support
- 4. You swam — 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 ✗
Lumi: you have "taki" (my cat) and want "my cats". What do you say?
- 1. takisai — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. takiksai — no support
- 3. taksai — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. taksaki — 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 ✗
Selk: which word would mean "mountain water", water from a mountain?
- 1. otamor — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. kiota — no support
- 3. fenota — no support
- 4. morota — ✓ 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 ✗
Gran from the Black Country: "It's bostin' how yow cracked it, bab." ("Bostin'" means great; "bab" is a fond word for a child.) Tano: how do you say "I don't like"?
- 1. Ne ti ama — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ti ama ne — no support
- 3. Ti ne ama — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Ka ne ama — 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 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Ilo: what does "seriko" mean?
- 1. To sing — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A runner — no support
- 3. A little song — no support
- 4. Singer — ✓ 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 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Mia's rule for Pirr is "lo means big". Which example proves her wrong?
- 1. bopir = big bird — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. lopir = small bird — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. bomuk = big fish — no support
- 4. She is right — 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 ✗
Kel: Josh says 20 is "lan mu". Check against the data. How do you really say 20?
- 1. lan mu — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ki lan ki — no support
- 3. mu lan — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. ro lan mu — 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 ✗
Identify the principle stated to govern UKLO puzzles concerning prior knowledge of the language.
- 1. Fluency in the language is presupposed — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A knowledge of Latin is essential — no support
- 3. A dictionary of the language is permitted — no support
- 4. All that is required is contained in the data — ✓ 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 ✗
It is given that, in the language Tolo, "kapa" denotes "house" and "kapakapa" denotes "houses". Determine the plural of "sela", denoting "tree".
- 1. selas — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. selasela — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. kasela — no support
- 4. sela — 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 value of the Kel numeral "mu lan ro", given that a numeral preceding "lan" multiplies it and one following "lan" is added to it.
- 1. Twenty-seven — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Seventeen — no support
- 3. Twenty-three — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Twelve — 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 ✓
Select the response consistent with the data concerning the meaning of the Vor word "selral".
- 1. It denotes the colour green — no support
- 2. It denotes the absence of colour — no support
- 3. The data do not establish its meaning — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
- 4. It denotes purple beyond all doubt — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 3, line 10: «A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; using it is how spellings get learned, not cheating.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «show» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). 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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