--- title: Four persons each shake hands once with every other. Ascertain the t… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Four persons each shake hands once with every other. Ascertain the total number of handshakes. Exam question 3 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 each option; Mova's choice was --- [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/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/) / [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/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ Four persons each shake hands once with every other. Ascertain the total number of handshakes. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Four persons, you · **What happens:** shake, ascertain · **To what, where:** hands, total number This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Four persons each shake hands once with every other. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e3:1 # text = Four persons each shake hands once with every other. 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 shake shake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 advmod _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake** | present | Four persons | hands | | | | with every other; once *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with other=Co-Patient | 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 total number of handshakes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e3:2 # text = Ascertain the total number of handshakes. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 handshakes handshake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the total number of handshakes | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e3:o1:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Six ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e3:o2:1 # 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 3 {#o3} Sixteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e3:o3:1 # text = Sixteen 1 Sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twelve ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:e3:o4:1 # text = Twelve 1 Twelve twelve 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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