Exam question 1 · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★

Determine the number of Cyrillic letters in the word БАБУСЯ, given that Я represents the sounds ya.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Я · What happens: determine, give, represent · To what, where: number, sounds

This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 letters	case
5	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 letters	amod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 word	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 letters	nmod
10	БАБУСЯ	БАБУСЯ	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 word	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 given	punct
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	parataxis
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 Я	det
14	Я	Я	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 represents	nsubj
15	represents	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 given	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sounds	det
17	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 represents	obj
18	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sounds	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the number of Cyrillic letters in the word	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	give	participle			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	represent	present	that Я	the sounds ya	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sound=Theme

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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