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# Exam question 2 · Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★

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It is given that a program answers correctly in nine instances out of every ten. Ascertain the approximate number of incorrect answers among forty.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** program, you · **What happens:** give, answer, ascertain · **To what, where:** It, nine instances, approximate number

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a program answers correctly in nine instances out of every ten.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:e2:1
# text = It is given that a program answers correctly in nine instances out of every ten.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | a program |  |  | nine instances out every ten |  | correctly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Ascertain the approximate number of incorrect answers among forty.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:e2:2
# text = Ascertain the approximate number of incorrect answers among forty.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	incorrect	incorrect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate number of incorrect answers among forty |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:e2:o1:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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36

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:e2:o2:1
# text = 36
1	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:e2:o3:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages:e2:o4:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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