--- title: It is given that the present day is a Wednesday. Ascertain the day o… — Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that the present day is a Wednesday. Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall one hundred days hence. 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Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall one hundred days hence. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** present day, you, week · **What happens:** give, be, ascertain, fall · **To what, where:** It, Wednesday This is exam question 1 of lesson 192 «Olympiad: time and calendar puzzles ★★★» of the world 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/world/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/#e1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that the present day is a Wednesday. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e1:1 # text = It is given that the present day is a Wednesday. 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 _ 10 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **is a** | present | the present day | a Wednesday | | | | | tree rules | 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:* Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall one hundred days hence. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e1:2 # text = Ascertain the day of the week which shall fall one hundred days hence. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 11 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 hence hence ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | day | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fall** | shall | the week | | | | day | hence *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Thursday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e1:o1:1 # text = Thursday 1 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Saturday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e1:o2:1 # text = Saturday 1 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Friday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e1:o3:1 # text = Friday 1 Friday Friday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Wednesday ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles:e1:o4:1 # text = Wednesday 1 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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