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description: Sashko's little brother shows three fingers by bending three into the palm and leaving two up. What would happen if you read the fingers still up? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» of the Ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Test 5 · ★★ · To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour

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Sashko's little brother shows three fingers by bending three into the palm and leaving two up. What would happen if you read the fingers still up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** little brother, you · **What happens:** show, bend, leave up, happen, read up · **To what, where:** three fingers, three, palm, two, fingers

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «To a hundred, first and last, and the first colour» 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/9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sashko's little brother shows three fingers by bending three into the palm and leaving two up.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red:t5:1
# text = Sashko's little brother shows three fingers by bending three into the palm and leaving two up.
1	Sashko	Sashko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Sashko's little brother | three fingers |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finger=Recipient |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund | Sashko's little brother *not said here* | three |  | the palm |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent three=Material into palm=Product |
| 3 | **leave up** | gerund | Sashko's little brother *not said here* | two |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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 would happen if you read the fingers still up?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red:t5:2
# text = What would happen if you read the fingers still up?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **read up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the fingers |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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You'd read five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red:t5:o1:1
# text = You'd read five
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | You | five |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You'd read zero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red:t5:o2:1
# text = You'd read zero
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	zero	zero	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | You | zero |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zero=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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You'd read three correctly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red:t5:o3:1
# text = You'd read three correctly
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | You | three |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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You'd read two, though he means three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ukrainian-street:9-to-a-hundred-first-and-last-red:t5:o4:1
# text = You'd read two, though he means three
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | You | two |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | he | three |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic |

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