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title: Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party! Four of us shook hands with eve… — Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party! Four of us shook hands with everyone, so 16 handshakes." How many were there? Test 7 · ★★★ 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; M
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: everyday reasoning ★★★

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Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party! Four of us shook hands with everyone, so 16 handshakes." How many were there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Four, many · **What happens:** shake, be · **To what, where:** hands

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This is test 7 · ★★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:1
# text = Thabo from Cape Town: "Lekker party!
1	Thabo	Thabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	Cape	Cape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Lekker	Lekker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 2:* Four of us shook hands with everyone, so 16 handshakes."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:2
# text = Four of us shook hands with everyone, so 16 handshakes."
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	handshakes	handshake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | Four of us | hands |  |  |  | with everyone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with everyone=Co-Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* How many were there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:3
# text = How many were there?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | many |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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12; each shakes three hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:o1:1
# text = 12; each shakes three hands
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | present | 12 | three hands |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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6; a handshake needs two hands and nobody shakes their own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:o2:1
# text = 6; a handshake needs two hands and nobody shakes their own
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	handshake	handshake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | 6 | two hands |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | present | nobody | hands's own |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent own=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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16, four times four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:o3:1
# text = 16, four times four
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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8, two each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:194-olympiad-everyday-reasoning:t7:o4:1
# text = 8, two each
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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