A question about one sentence puzzle

[Yinglu Li]

Dear organizer,

I notice that the competition is finished. We have a question about one of the sentence puzzle:

number 57: Crossing a lush and muddy meadow are three men. The third man's feet are still dry despite the fact that only two of them are wearing rubber boots. Why?

choice list: ['The ground is not wet.', 'By walking on stilts, the third man elevates his feet above the wet ground.', 'The third man is walking on his hands.', 'None of above.']

Our answer about this puzzle is "None of above", but your answer is "the ground is not wet".I understand you might aim to re-construct the context or semantic of the raw puzzle "'Three men are walking across a green and fuscous field. Only two of them are wearing rubber boots and yet the feet of the third man remain dry. Why?'"

However, the word muddy/mud refers to a wet status in the Cambridge dictionary, which is contradict to your answer. Could you please re-correct or explain it?

Thanks,

Yinglu

[yifan jiang]

Hi Yinglu,

Thank you for your question. We are still discussing the possible solution and will update it as soon as possible. 

Even if there may be possible change in the final ranking, you can continue focusing on the paper writing as in both system paper and task description paper  as Semeval suggest to focus more on results and analysis and less on discussing rankings in the analysis part of the paper.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for the understanding!!!

Best,

Yifan Jiang

[yifan jiang]

Hi Yinglu,

Sorry for the late response. We have tried several possible ways, but we found the rerun of the leaderboard can cause some problems. The strategy we used during the evaluation phase is transferring the best one out of three submissions to the leaderboard, which means we may not find the best one after we change the answer (The best one can change, but we don't have the record for that).  So, we decided to keep the original dataset and leaderboard. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding!!!

Best,

Yifan Jiang