--- title: Ascertain the number of intersections produced by the grid employed… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, da… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of intersections produced by the grid employed in the rule of thirds. Exam question 3 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/e3/) [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/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/) / [Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, da…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★ Ascertain the number of intersections produced by the grid employed in the rule of thirds. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, thirds · **What happens:** ascertain, produce, employ, rule · **To what, where:** number, intersections, grid, rule This is exam question 3 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts 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/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:42-olympiad-picture-puzzles:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the number of intersections produced by the grid employed in the rule of thirds. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 intersections intersection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 produced produce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 grid grid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 thirds third NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of intersections | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **produce** | participle | | intersections *not said here* | | | | by the grid | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **employ** | participle | | the grid *not said here* | | the rule of thirds | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **rule** | | thirds | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nine ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:42-olympiad-picture-puzzles:e3:o1:1 # text = Nine 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:42-olympiad-picture-puzzles:e3:o2:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Six ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:42-olympiad-picture-puzzles:e3:o3:1 # text = Six 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:42-olympiad-picture-puzzles:e3:o4:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|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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