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Test 6 · ★★ · Ukrainian compared with English

A newspaper writes "Kiev" in 2026. What's the better spelling, and why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: newspaper, better spelling · What happens: write, be · To what, where: Kiev, 2026

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 33 «Ukrainian compared with English» of the language 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A newspaper writes "Kiev" in 2026.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 newspaper	det
2	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Kiev	punct
5	Kiev	Kiev	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 writes	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Kiev	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2026	case
8	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 writes	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	a newspaper	Kiev		2026			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kiev=Theme in 2026=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What's the better spelling, and why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spelling	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 spelling	amod
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 why	cc
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 What	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better spelling						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Kiyv, because it's shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiyv	Kiyv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kiyv	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 shorter	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shorter	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	cop
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Kiyv	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					short property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kyiv, because it follows Ukrainian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 follows	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 follows	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 follows	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 follows	nsubj
5	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Kyiv	Ukrainian					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ukrainian=Theme

Option 3

Kiev, because it's the older English spelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiev	Kiev	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spelling	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 spelling	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spelling	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 spelling	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spelling	det
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 spelling	amod
8	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spelling	amod
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kiev	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the older English spelling					tree rules

Option 4

It doesn't matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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