Exam question 4 · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★

Compute shistdesYAt less shistNAdtsyat and express the result in Ukrainian.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shistdesYAt · What happens: express · To what, where: result, Ukrainian

This is exam question 4 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	Compute	compute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shistdesYAt	nsubj
2	shistdesYAt	shistdesYAt	PROPN	_	6 express	nsubj
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 shistNAdtsyat	advmod
4	shistNAdtsyat	shistnadtsyat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shistdesYAt	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 express	cc
6	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 result	det
8	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 express	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Ukrainian	case
10	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 result	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 express	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	express	infinitive	shistdesYAt	the result		Ukrainian			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=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

p'yatdesYAt, fifty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	p'yatdesYAt	p'yatdesYAt	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fifty	punct
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 p'yatdesYAt	appos

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

Option 2

trynAdtsyat, thirteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trynAdtsyat	trynAdtsyat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thirteen	punct
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 trynAdtsyat	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

SOrok chotyRY, forty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	SOrok	SOrok	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chotyRY	compound
2	chotyRY	chotyry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forty	punct
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 chotyRY	appos
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 four	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 forty	conj

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

Option 4

SOrok, forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	SOrok	SOrok	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 forty	punct
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 SOrok	appos

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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