Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★
Tests: 4 of 12 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★★★ · Understood: 4 of 16 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 31 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
«lol my cousin's text says ВІСІМ, that's 'BICIM', some English word innit» What does it really say?
- 1. sim, seven — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. vis, eighty — no support
- 3. visim, eight — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. bicim, a kind of bike — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★★ · right ✓
«Cyrillic is just English letters flipped round, ez» says your mate. Check it.
- 1. Right: Cyrillic and English are exactly the same alphabet — no support
- 2. Right: every Cyrillic letter is an English one turned round — no support
- 3. Wrong: Cyrillic has no letters at all, only little pictures — no support
- 4. Wrong: some look English but sound different, like В for v — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 8: «Some Cyrillic letters look like English ones but stand for other sounds: В is v, Н is n, Р is r, С is s and Х is kh.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «look» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Sashko has vIsim sweets and you have shIst. You pile them up and dIlymo navpIl. How many each?
- 1. chotyrNAdtsyat — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. sim — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. vIsim — no support
- 4. shIst — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★★ · right ✓
«bruv I counted to forty, that's chotyRY tens, so it's 'chotyrdesyat' innit» Is he right?
- 1. No: forty is its own odd word, SOrok, not built from chotyRY — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 2
- 2. No, forty is devyanOsto, the odd one — no support
- 3. Yes, chotyrdesyat is the proper word for forty — score 1
- 4. No, forty is p'yatdesYAt, said like fifty — no support
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 8, line 4: «And there is one odd one out: forty is not «four-ty» but a word all of its own, SOrok — so when the seeker in hide-and-seek counts to forty, listen for SOrok.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «forty» (+2); the same thing acted on «four ty» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
A kid writes «ДВА ДІВЧИНИ» (dva DIvchyny, two girls). What should he fix?
- 1. ДІВЧИНИ → ДІВЧИНА: there is one girl — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nothing at all, it is spot on — no support
- 3. ДВА → ДВІ: it's dvi before DIvchyny — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. ДВА → ТРИ: girls go in threes — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓
A puzzle card says ТАТО → ТАТУ!, МАМА → МАМО!. A girl is called ОКСАНА. How do you call her?
- 1. ОКСАНО! — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. ОКСАНЮ! — no support
- 3. ОКСАНУ! — no support
- 4. ОКСАНА! — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
«ugh this hide and seek took like a million years, he counted to sto twice» How far did the seeker really count in all?
- 1. Two thousand — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. One hundred — no support
- 3. A million, like she says — no support
- 4. Two hundred — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
Odd one out: ДВА, ТРИ, ТАК, СТО — and why?
- 1. ТРИ: it is the only one with an И — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ТАК: it means yes, so it is not a number at all — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. ДВА: it is the only one with a В — no support
- 4. СТО: it is the biggest of the four — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★★ · right ✓
«nah mate, СІМ is 'sim' like a SIM card, it means phone» Right?
- 1. No: СІМ is sim, seven — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
- 2. No, it is sto, a hundred — no support
- 3. No, it is shIst, six — no support
- 4. Yes, it means a phone card — score 6
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 9: «И is written y in English letters and sounds like a short «ih», while І is written i and sounds like «ee»: ТРИ is try (three), СІМ is sim (seven).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «сім» (+4); the same thing acted on «sim» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
ЧОТИРИ is chotyry. Which letter does the job of ch?
- 1. О — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Ч — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Т — no support
- 4. И — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
«we lost a bit lol» says Sashko. The score was nol — DEsyat. How bad was it really?
- 1. Not bad at all: it was a draw — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Great: they won by ten clear goals — no support
- 3. Close: just one goal in it — no support
- 4. Very bad: ten goals to none — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★★★ · wrong ✗
«TRYdtsyat and trynAdtsyat, same thing, both thirteen» says your mate. Which is right?
- 1. Yes, both mean thirteen — no support
- 2. No: TRYdtsyat is 30, trynAdtsyat 13 — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. No: TRYdtsyat is just 3 — no support
- 4. No, both of them mean thirty — ← Mova's choice · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 8, line 12: «TRYdtsyat means thirty.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «mean» (+2); the same thing acted on «thirty» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
Determine the number of Cyrillic letters in the word БАБУСЯ, given that Я represents the sounds ya.
- 1. Eight — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Seven — no support
- 3. Six — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Five — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the numeral which, among the tens from twenty to eighty, is alone in not being formed from the corresponding unit.
- 1. SOrok, forty, a word of its own — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. DVAdtsyat, twenty — no support
- 3. sImdesyat, seventy — no support
- 4. TRYdtsyat, thirty — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗
Determine the reading of the Cyrillic word НІ, which resembles an English greeting.
- 1. ny, signifying now — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. ni, signifying no — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. hi, a greeting — no support
- 4. ni, signifying yes — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Compute shistdesYAt less shistNAdtsyat and express the result in Ukrainian.
- 1. p'yatdesYAt, fifty — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. trynAdtsyat, thirteen — no support
- 3. SOrok chotyRY, forty-four — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. SOrok, forty — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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