--- title: Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: This last puzzle lesson mixes the whole course: made-up answers, bots that agree too easily, fake voices and pictures, scams an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky mes… # Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ Lesson 32 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/0/) — This last puzzle lesson mixes the whole course: made-up answers, bots that agree too easily, fake voices and pictures, scams and the four steps stop, think, check, ask. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/1/) — Each puzzle hides one trap: a claim that sounds sure but is false, two bots that cannot both be right, a number that is only a figure of speech, or a "tiny" problem that is really big. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/2/) — Picture two bots arguing: one says 12 × 3 is 36, the other says 33. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/3/) — You do not need to trust either; you can work it out yourself, and the working is the proof. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/4/) — Logic helps too: someone who always tells the truth can never say "I am a liar", and neither can someone who always lies, so if you hear it, the speaker is neither. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/5/) — The calm detective habit wins every time: slow down, look for the clue, check with a trusted source and tell a grown-up when it matters. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/6/) — If one bot says something and another bot says the opposite, they cannot both be right, but both could be sure of themselves. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/7/) — If a bot is right about 9 times out of 10, then in 30 answers about 3 are wrong, and you cannot tell which without checking. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/8/) — A real book can be found in a library catalogue or a bookshop list; a book that appears nowhere but in a bot's answer may be made up. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/9/) — A quote can be checked in its original source, and a "quote" about something invented after the speaker died cannot be real. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/10/) — Abraham Lincoln, a US president, died in 1865, long before computers and the internet existed. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/11/) — Warning signs of a scam message are hurry, a secret, a request for money, codes or passwords, and a prize that seems too good to be true. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/12/) — Extra fingers, melted shapes or jumbled letters can be clues that a picture was AI-made, though newer tools make fewer of these mistakes. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/13/) — A truth-teller never says "I am a liar" and a liar never says it either, because for the liar it would be true. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/14/) — Hyperbole like "a billion mistakes" means "many", and understatement like "a slight problem" can hide a serious one. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/15/) — It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court cases a chatbot had invented and that the judge fined them. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/16/) — It was reported that a tribunal made an airline honour what its website chatbot had wrongly promised a customer. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/17/) — When a bot says "Great question!" or agrees with your guess, that is a habit, not proof that you are right. - ← previous: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)