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description: Determine the reading of the Cyrillic word НІ, which resembles an English greeting. Exam question 3 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★

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Determine the reading of the Cyrillic word НІ, which resembles an English greeting.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, НІ · **What happens:** determine, resemble, read · **To what, where:** reading, English greeting, Cyrillic word

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 31 «Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:e3:1
# text = Determine the reading of the Cyrillic word НІ, which resembles an English greeting.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Cyrillic	cyrillic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	НІ	НІ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resembles	resemble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the reading of the Cyrillic word |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Topic |
| 2 | **resemble** | present | НІ | a English greeting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** |  |  | the Cyrillic word |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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ny, signifying now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:e3:o1:1
# text = ny, signifying now
1	ny	NY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | gerund | ny |  |  |  | now |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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ni, signifying no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:e3:o2:1
# text = ni, signifying no
1	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | gerund | ni | no |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot no=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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hi, a greeting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:e3:o3:1
# text = hi, a greeting
1	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ni, signifying yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:e3:o4:1
# text = ni, signifying yes
1	ni	no	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **signify** | gerund | ni |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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**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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