Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★

Odd one out: ДВА, ТРИ, ТАК, СТО — and why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	amod
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 one	compound:prt
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 ДВА	punct
5	ДВА	ДВА	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 one	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ТРИ	punct
7	ТРИ	ТРИ	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ДВА	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ТАК	punct
9	ТАК	ТАК	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ДВА	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 СТО	punct
11	СТО	СТО	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ДВА	conj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 СТО	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 why	cc
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ДВА	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

ТРИ: it is the only one with an И

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ТРИ	три	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 ТРИ	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 И	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 И	det
10	И	И	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ТРИ	the only one				with a И	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

ТАК: it means yes, so it is not a number at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ТАК	ТАК	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 means	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 number	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	12 number	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 number	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 number	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 number	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 number	det
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 number	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	ТАК						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	not is a	present	it	a number		all			tree rules

Option 3

ДВА: it is the only one with a В

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ДВА	два	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ДВА	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 В	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 В	det
10	В	В	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ДВА = два	the only one				with a В	tree rules

Option 4

СТО: it is the biggest of the four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	СТО	сто	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 biggest	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 biggest	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 biggest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 biggest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 biggest	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 four	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 four	det
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 biggest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	СТО					of the four; big property	tree rules

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