--- title: A drawer contains socks of three colours. Determine the least number… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A drawer contains socks of three colours. Determine the least number which must be drawn unseen to ensure a matching pair. Exam question 1 of lesson 194 «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/e1/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ A drawer contains socks of three colours. Determine the least number which must be drawn unseen to ensure a matching pair. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** drawer, you · **What happens:** contain, determine, draw, ensure, match · **To what, where:** socks, least number, matching pair This is exam question 1 of lesson 194 «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» 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/194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning/#e1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A drawer contains socks of three colours. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e1:1 # text = A drawer contains socks of three colours. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 drawer drawer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | a drawer | socks of three colours | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sock=Theme | 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:* Determine the least number which must be drawn unseen to ensure a matching pair. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e1:2 # text = Determine the least number which must be drawn unseen to ensure a matching pair. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 ensure ensure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 matching match VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the least number | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **draw** | must · passive | | the least number | | | | unseen *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **ensure** | to-infinitive | | a matching pair | | | | | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pair=Theme | | 4 | **match** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e1:o1:1 # text = Two 1 Two two 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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e1: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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e1: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:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e1: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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