--- title: "Gran reckons a knockout for 16 teams takes forever, like a hundred… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb… · tree and pragmatics description: "Gran reckons a knockout for 16 teams takes forever, like a hundred matches". How many matches are really needed? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/) / [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★ "Gran reckons a knockout for 16 teams takes forever, like a hundred matches". How many matches are really needed? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gran, knockout · **What happens:** reckon, take, need · **To what, where:** many matches · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» of the AI 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Gran reckons a knockout for 16 teams takes forever, like a hundred matches". ```conllu # sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t5:1 # text = "Gran reckons a knockout for 16 teams takes forever, like a hundred matches". 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 reckons reckon VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 knockout knockout NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 forever forever ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reckon** *in a quote* | present | Gran | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present | a knockout for 16 teams | | | | | forever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. *Sentence 2:* How many matches are really needed? ```conllu # sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t5:2 # text = How many matches are really needed? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 matches match NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present · passive | | many matches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t5:o1:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 16 ```conllu # sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t5:o2:1 # text = 16 1 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 15 ```conllu # sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t5:o3:1 # text = 15 1 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t5:o4:1 # text = 100 1 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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