Section is not a matroid.
https://gyazo.com/f90d51846e4c516c8d77ac53df739d68
A set of intervals and a pair of "some intervals chosen not to overlap" are not [matroid
X is smaller than Y, but you can't pick one from Y and add it to X without overlap
This violates the matroid exchange rule.
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