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title: Priya: "Pond's covered on day 30, so it's half covered on day 15, ea… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Priya: "Pond's covered on day 30, so it's half covered on day 15, easy peasy." Put her right. Test 5 · ★★★ 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 wron
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★

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Priya: "Pond's covered on day 30, so it's half covered on day 15, easy peasy." Put her right.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Priya, you · **What happens:** cover, put · **To what, where:** Pond, it

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 194 «Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★» of the world course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Priya: "Pond's covered on day 30, so it's half covered on day 15, easy peasy."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t5:1
# text = Priya: "Pond's covered on day 30, so it's half covered on day 15, easy peasy."
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Pond	Pond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	advmod	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	peasy	peasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle |  | Pond *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** *in a quote* | present · passive | Priya and Pond *not said here* | it |  |  | day | half *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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:* Put her right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t5:2
# text = Put her right.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Pond |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Day 15 is right, since 15 is half of 30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t5:o1:1
# text = Day 15 is right, since 15 is half of 30
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Day |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | since 15 half | of 30 | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Day 1, since they started that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t5:o2:1
# text = Day 1, since they started that day
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | they | Day |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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

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Day 29; they double, so half is one day before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t5:o3:1
# text = Day 29; they double, so half is one day before
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
2	29	29	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	double	double	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **double** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | half | one day |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Day 28, because half of half is a quarter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t5:o4:1
# text = Day 28, because half of half is a quarter
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	nmod	_	_
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	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | half of half | a quarter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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