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title: At the market a man says «sImdesyat». Your friend hears «seventeen».… — Counting on: nine to eighty · tree and pragmatics
description: At the market a man says «sImdesyat». Your friend hears «seventeen». What did the man say? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 8 «Counting on: nine to eighty» 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 choice was right
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# Test 5 · ★ · Counting on: nine to eighty

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At the market a man says «sImdesyat». Your friend hears «seventeen». What did the man say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** man, friend · **What happens:** say, hear · **To what, where:** sImdesyat, market, seventeen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ukrainian-street/8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* At the market a man says «sImdesyat».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:1
# text = At the market a man says «sImdesyat».
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sImdesyat	simdesyat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a man | sImdesyat |  | the market |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent simdesyat=Topic |

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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:* Your friend hears «seventeen».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:2
# text = Your friend hears «seventeen».
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Your friend | seventeen |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer seventeen=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* What did the man say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:3
# text = What did the man say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Seventy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:o1:1
# text = Seventy
1	Seventy	seventy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Seventeen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:o2:1
# text = Seventeen
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seven hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:o3:1
# text = Seven hundred
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:8-counting-on-nine-to-eighty:t5:o4:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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