Test 9 · ★ · Counting on: nine to eighty
In a game the shop sign says vIsimdesyat coins, and the cartoon character pays eighteen. What went wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shop sign, cartoon character · What happens: say, pay, go · To what, where: vIsimdesyat coins, game, eighteen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 8 «Counting on: nine to eighty» 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: In a game the shop sign says vIsimdesyat coins, and the cartoon character pays eighteen.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | compound |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | vIsimdesyat | vIsimdesyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coins | compound |
| 9 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pays | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pays | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 character | det |
| 13 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 character | compound |
| 14 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pays | nsubj |
| 15 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 16 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 pays | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the shop sign | vIsimdesyat coins | a game | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent coin=Theme in game=Manner | |||
| 2 | pay | present | the cartoon character | eighteen | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eighteen=Asset |
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: What went wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
vIsimdesyat is eighty, not eighteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vIsimdesyat | vIsimdesyat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eighty | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eighty | cop |
| 3 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eighteen | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 eighteen | advmod |
| 6 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eighty | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | vIsimdesyat | eighty | tree rules |
Option 2
It is eight hundred
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hundred | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hundred | cop |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hundred | compound |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | eight hundred | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, it is eighteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eighteen | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eighteen | cop |
| 5 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | eighteen | tree rules |
Option 4
It is eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eight | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eight | cop |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | eight | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty/t9/