Olympiad: real languages and codes
Tests: 5 of 11 right · Exam: 2 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 6 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 59 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
Your mate says, "Swahili's like English, you just stick an -s on, innit: mtotos." Put him right.
- 1. It adds wa- in front: wamtoto — no support
- 2. Swahili changes the start: watoto — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4
- 3. It is made by doubling: mtoto-mtoto — no support
- 4. He is right: the plural is mtotos — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 59, line 2: «Swahili changes the start of a word instead of the end: mtoto (child) becomes watoto (children), and mtu (person) becomes watu (people).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «change» (+3); the same doer «swahili» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
A cartoon says Turkish "kitap" becomes "kitapler". Fix it.
- 1. It should simply add an -s to make kitaps — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Its last vowel is a, so it takes -lar: kitaplar — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. It should be doubled to make kitap-kitap — no support
- 4. Kitapler is right, as -ler goes on every word — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
Esperanto: what would "malgranda hundo" mean?
- 1. Small dog — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Big dog — score 3
- 3. Bad dog — score 3
- 4. Big dogs — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 58, line 7: «In Ruvan, mika is girl, pela is dog, tor is sees and sun is feeds; "Mika-n pela tor" means the girl sees the dog.», reached through what was said in the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same thing acted on «dog» (+3). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2); a different doer (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Jade, Gen Z: "IFMMP is lowkey just HELLO moved one, so decode GSJFOE." ("Lowkey" means kind of.) What is it?
- 1. FIREND — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. FRIEND — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. FRIENDS — no support
- 4. HTKGPF — 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 ✗
Using the A = 1 code, what is 2-15-19-19?
- 1. BOTS — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. COSS — no support
- 3. BOSS — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. BOSE — 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 ✗
Grandad from Glasgow, dry: "Kalikimaka? Sounds like some wee eejit misheard it." What is true?
- 1. He's right: it was simply misheard — no support
- 2. It is really an Esperanto word — ← Mova's choice · score 4
- 3. It is really a Japanese word — score 4
- 4. It follows Hawaiian's sound rules — ✓ the right answer · no support
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 57, line 16: «"Eejit" is an Irish word for idiot, often said in fun.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «irish word» (+3); the same doer «eejit» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Indonesian: what does "anak" alone mean?
- 1. Many children — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Childhood — no support
- 3. Child — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Children — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
Which of these sounds could NOT start a Hawaiian word?
- 1. s — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. m — score 7
- 3. k — score 9
- 4. h — score 7
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, tied with another option at 9 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 59, line 2: «Swahili changes the start of a word instead of the end: mtoto (child) becomes watoto (children), and mtu (person) becomes watu (people).», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «word» (+3); the same action «start» (+2); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Welsh: "fy" means my. Following the rule, if "cariad" means love, how is "my love" written?
- 1. fy ngariad — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. fy hariad — no support
- 3. fy nghariad — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. fy cariad — 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 · ★★★ · right ✓
Swahili: watu = people. What is the word for one person?
- 1. mtu — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
- 2. mtoto — no support
- 3. watus — no support
- 4. wa — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 15: «In some Northern English dialects "were" is used with every person ("I were", "she were"); Standard English uses "I was" and "she was".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same thing acted on «person» (+3); the same doer «time words» (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓
Turkish: kedi (cat) → kediler. What is the plural of deniz (sea)?
- 1. denizler — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. deniz-deniz — no support
- 3. denizs — no support
- 4. denizlar — 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 · right ✓
Identify the means by which plurality of nouns is expressed in Indonesian, as exemplified by "buku-buku".
- 1. Repetition of the noun — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Alteration of the initial sound — no support
- 3. Addition of a final -s — no support
- 4. A separate word for "many" — 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 Swahili "mtoto" denotes "child" and "watoto" denotes "children". Determine the plural of "mpishi".
- 1. Mpishis — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Wampishi — no support
- 3. Wapishi — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Mpishi-mpishi — 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 decoding of "JTMBOE", given that each letter of the plain text has been advanced by one place in the alphabet.
- 1. ITLAND — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ISLANE — no support
- 3. ISLAND — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. KUNCPF — 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 that most accurately accounts for the Hawaiian rendering "Mele Kalikimaka".
- 1. Translation of a different festival — no support
- 2. Borrowing from the Japanese language — no support
- 3. Deliberate mistranslation for comic effect — no support
- 4. Adaptation of the phrase to Hawaiian sounds — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 29, line 1: «An adverbial is a word or group of words that tells you more about the verb: when, where, how, or how often something happened. «We went home later that day.»…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «words» (+1); the same circumstance (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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