Exam question 3 · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★

Determine the reading of the Cyrillic word НІ, which resembles an English greeting.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, НІ · What happens: determine, resemble, read · To what, where: reading, English greeting, Cyrillic word

This is exam question 3 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 reading	det
3	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	nmod
8	НІ	НІ	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 word	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resembles	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 resembles	nsubj
11	resembles	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 НІ	acl:relcl
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 greeting	det
13	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 greeting	amod
14	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 resembles	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the reading of the Cyrillic word	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Topic
2	resemble	present	НІ	a English greeting	tree rules
3	read			the Cyrillic word	nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

ny, signifying now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ny	NY	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 signifying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ny	punct
3	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 signifying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	gerund	ny				now		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ni, signifying no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 signifying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 signifying	punct
3	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 signifying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	gerund	ni	no					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot no=Theme

Option 3

hi, a greeting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hi	hi	INTJ	_	4 greeting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 hi	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 greeting	det
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

ni, signifying yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 signifying	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 signifying	punct
3	signifying	signify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 signifying	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	gerund	ni						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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