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Test 9 · ★★ · Ukrainian compared with English

Your cousin says "all Cyrillic alphabets are the same, so Ukrainian and Russian letters match exactly." What shows she's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Cyrillic alphabets, Ukrainian letters · What happens: say, be, match, show · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Your cousin says "all Cyrillic alphabets are the same, so Ukrainian and Russian letters match exactly."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 same	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 alphabets	det
6	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 alphabets	amod
7	alphabets	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 same	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 same	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Ukrainian	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 Ukrainian	advmod
13	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 letters	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Russian	cc
15	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Ukrainian	conj
16	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 match	nsubj
17	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	17 match	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 match	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 match	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	all Cyrillic alphabets					same property	tree rules
3	match in a quote	present	Ukrainian letters					exactly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 shows she's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrong	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	cousin					wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ukrainian uses Latin letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 letters	amod
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Ukrainian	Latin letters					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 2

Russian has no letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 letters	det
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Russian	no letters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 3

Cyrillic has only 10 letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cyrillic	cyrillic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 10	advmod
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 letters	nummod
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cyrillic	10 letters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ukrainian has its own letters like ї and ґ

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 letters	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 letters	amod
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 ї	case
7	ї	ї	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letters	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ґ	cc
9	ґ	ґ	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ї	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ukrainian	its own letters				like ї and ґ	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
2	letter		its = it					like ї and ґ	nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent like=obl

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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