Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★
«Cyrillic is just English letters flipped round, ez» says your mate. Check it.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cyrillic, mate, you · What happens: be, flip, say, check · To what, where: English letters, Cyrillic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: «Cyrillic is just English letters flipped round, ez» says your mate.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 letters | punct |
| 2 | Cyrillic | cyrillic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 letters | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 letters | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 letters | advmod |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 letters | amod |
| 6 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 says | ccomp |
| 7 | flipped | flip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 letters | acl |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 flipped | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ez | punct |
| 10 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 says | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 ez | 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 | is a in a quote | present | Cyrillic | English letters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flip in a quote | participle | English letters not said here | round property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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: Check it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Check | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | Cyrillic | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Right: Cyrillic and English are exactly the same alphabet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 10 alphabet | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | Cyrillic | Cyrillic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 alphabet | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 English | cc |
| 5 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cyrillic | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 alphabet | cop |
| 7 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 10 alphabet | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 alphabet | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 alphabet | amod |
| 10 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cyrillic and English | the same alphabet | exactly, right property | tree rules |
Option 2
Right: every Cyrillic letter is an English one turned round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 9 one | advmod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 letter | det |
| 4 | Cyrillic | cyrillic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 letter | amod |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | acl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | every Cyrillic letter | a English one | right property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn round | participle | a English one not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Wrong: Cyrillic has no letters at all, only little pictures
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 has | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 3 | Cyrillic | Cyrillic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 letters | det |
| 6 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 letters | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pictures | punct |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 pictures | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pictures | amod |
| 12 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Wrong | no letters | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wrong: some look English but sound different, like В for v
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | amod |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sound | cc |
| 7 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | conj |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sound | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 В | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 В | case |
| 11 | В | В | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 v | case |
| 13 | v | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 В | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | some | like В for v; english property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | some not said here | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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