Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★
«TRYdtsyat and trynAdtsyat, same thing, both thirteen» says your mate. Which is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: TRYdtsyat · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★★ 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: «TRYdtsyat and trynAdtsyat, same thing, both thirteen» says your mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 TRYdtsyat | punct |
| 2 | TRYdtsyat | TRYdtsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 trynAdtsyat | cc |
| 4 | trynAdtsyat | trynAdtsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 TRYdtsyat | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 TRYdtsyat | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thirteen | punct |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 thirteen | det |
| 10 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 TRYdtsyat | appos |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 thirteen | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mate | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | TRYdtsyat and trynAdtsyat | your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mate=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: Which is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, both mean thirteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 mean | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | both | thirteen | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirteen=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No: TRYdtsyat is 30, trynAdtsyat 13
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 30 | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 30 | punct |
| 3 | TRYdtsyat | TRYdtsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 30 | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 30 | cop |
| 5 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trynAdtsyat | punct |
| 7 | trynAdtsyat | trynAdtsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 30 | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | TRYdtsyat | no 30 | trynAdtsyat nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
Option 3
No: TRYdtsyat is just 3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 TRYdtsyat | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | TRYdtsyat | TRYdtsyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 3 | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 3 | advmod |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 TRYdtsyat | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 3 | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
No, both of them mean thirty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 both | nmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 mean | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | both | thirty | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirty=Topic |
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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