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title: A kid writes «ДВА ДІВЧИНИ» (dva DIvchyny, two girls). What should he… — Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and n… · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid writes «ДВА ДІВЧИНИ» (dva DIvchyny, two girls). What should he fix? Test 5 · ★★★ 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 option; Mova's ch
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: Cyrillic code-breaking and number puzzles ★★★

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A kid writes «ДВА ДІВЧИНИ» (dva DIvchyny, two girls). What should he fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** write, fix · **To what, where:** ДВА ДІВЧИНИ

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This is test 5 · ★★★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kid writes «ДВА ДІВЧИНИ» (dva DIvchyny, two girls).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:t5:1
# text = A kid writes «ДВА ДІВЧИНИ» (dva DIvchyny, two girls).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ДВА	ДВА	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ДІВЧИНИ	ДІВЧИНИ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dva	dva	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	flat:foreign	_	_
10	DIvchyny	DIvchyny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | a kid | ДВА ДІВЧИНИ |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent дівчини=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should he fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:t5:2
# text = What should he fix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | should | kid |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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ДІВЧИНИ → ДІВЧИНА: there is one girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:t5:o1:1
# text = ДІВЧИНИ → ДІВЧИНА: there is one girl
1	ДІВЧИНИ	ДІВЧИНИ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	→	→	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ДІВЧИНА	ДІВЧИНА	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ДІВЧИНИ → ДІВЧИНА | one girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing at all, it is spot on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all, it is spot on
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	spot	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | present · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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ДВА → ДВІ: it's dvi before DIvchyny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:t5:o3:1
# text = ДВА → ДВІ: it's dvi before DIvchyny
1	ДВА	ДВА	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	→	→	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ДВІ	ДВІ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	dvi	dvi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	DIvchyny	DIvchyny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ДВА → ТРИ: girls go in threes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:31-olympiad-cyrillic-code-breaking-and-numbers:t5:o4:1
# text = ДВА → ТРИ: girls go in threes
1	ДВА	ДВА	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	→	→	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ТРИ	ТРИ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	threes	three	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | ДВА → ТРИ |  |  | threes |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in three=Location |

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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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