Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★
«we lost a bit lol» says Sashko. The score was nol — DEsyat. How bad was it really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, Sashko, score · What happens: lose, say, be · To what, where: bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the Ukrainian street 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: «we lost a bit lol» says Sashko.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 lost | discourse |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Sashko | Sashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | past | we | a bit | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Sashko | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: The score was nol — DEsyat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 score | det |
| 2 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nol | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nol | cop |
| 4 | nol | nol | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 DEsyat | punct |
| 6 | DEsyat | DEsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nol | vocative |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nol | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the score | DEsyat vocative; nol property | tree rules |
Sentence 3: How bad was it really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bad | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bad | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 2 bad | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 bad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | score | bad property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Not bad at all: it was a draw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bad | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 draw | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 draw | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 draw | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 draw | det |
| 9 | draw | draw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bad | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a draw | tree rules |
Option 2
Great: they won by ten clear goals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 won | advcl |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 won | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 won | nsubj |
| 4 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 goals | case |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 goals | nummod |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goals | amod |
| 8 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 won | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | they | by ten clear goals | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Close: just one goal in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 goal | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 goal | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 goal | nummod |
| 5 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Close | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Close | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | imperative | you not said here | one goal | in goal | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Very bad: ten goals to none
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 bad | advmod |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goals | amod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 goals | punct |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 goals | nummod |
| 5 | goals | goal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 none | case |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 goals | nmod |
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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