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title: The colours, and two kinds of blue — how Mova does on the tests · Ukrainian street
description: Lesson 10 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 12 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The colours, and two kinds of blue

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**Tests:** 5 of 12 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 5 of 16 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 10 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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«blue is blue, Ukrainians just have one word like us» Which is right?

- **1.** Yes, only blakYtnyi — no support
- **2.** No, they have five blues — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **3.** Yes, only SYniy — no support
- **4.** No, they have two: SYniy dark, blakYtnyi light — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 10, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 5: «SYniy means dark blue; Ukrainian has two everyday blues, SYniy (dark) and blakYtnyi (light).», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «ukrainian» (+4); the same thing acted on «two everyday blues» (+4); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Your jeans are dark navy. Which word fits best?

- **1.** SIryi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** SYniy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** fioLEtovyi — no support
- **4.** blakYtnyi — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t3}

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Your friend's T-shirt is pale like the summer sky. Which word fits best?

- **1.** CHOrnyi — no support
- **2.** blakYtnyi — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **3.** SYniy — no support
- **4.** korYchnevyi — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 6: «blakYtnyi means light blue or sky blue; calling the sky SYniy is not wrong, but it sounds dark.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same doer «blakytnyi» (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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«the flag's yellow on top, blue at the bottom» Which is right?

- **1.** Yes, yellow on top — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, blue on top and yellow below — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It is green and yellow, like grass — no support
- **4.** It is blue on the left — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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«pomarAnchevyi has orange in it so the fruit is pomarAncha in shops» What is right?

- **1.** Yes, every shop says pomarAncha — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** In shops oranges are usually apelsyny; pomarAncha is the old word — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** The fruit is called ZHOvtyi — no support
- **4.** The fruit is called pomarAnchevyi — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Sashko's sister holds up a crayon and asks «yakoho kOlyoru?». It's grass-coloured. What do you say?

- **1.** zelEnoho — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** chervOnoho — no support
- **3.** BIloho — no support
- **4.** SYnyoho — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

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Mix BIlyi paint with CHOrnyi paint. What colour do you get?

- **1.** korYchnevyi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** ZHOvtyi — no support
- **3.** SIryi — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** rOzhevyi — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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Mix chervOnyi and BIlyi paint. What do you get?

- **1.** rOzhevyi — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** fioLEtovyi — no support
- **3.** SIryi — no support
- **4.** zelEnyi — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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A Ukrainian kid calls a light-blue and a dark-blue pencil «two different colours». Why is that sensible in his language?

- **1.** Because SYniy and blakYtnyi are separate basic words, like red and pink — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Because blue is not a colour in Ukrainian — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **3.** Because the pencils are different brands — no support
- **4.** Because he is colour-blind — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 1: «In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are two everyday blues with their own names: SYniy, dark blue like jeans or a deep sea, and bla…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «blue» (+3); the same thing acted on «one colour» (+3); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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«grandad calls the flag zhovto-blakYtnyi but the law says SYniy, so grandad's wrong» Which is right?

- **1.** Yes, he is breaking the law — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** No, the law says CHOrnyi — no support
- **3.** No, zhovto-blakYtnyi is a very common, accepted way to say it — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Yes, the flag is really green — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t11}

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«brown is CHOrnyi innit, like dark» Which is right?

- **1.** No, brown is korYchnevyi; CHOrnyi is black — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Yes, brown is CHOrnyi — no support
- **3.** Brown is SIryi — no support
- **4.** Brown is rOzhevyi, a bit like pink and red mixed — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t11/)

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### Test 12 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t12}

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The rainy-day sky is not blue at all. Which colour word fits?

- **1.** SIryi — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** blakYtnyi — no support
- **3.** rOzhevyi — no support
- **4.** ZHOvtyi — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/t12/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the expression of the colour blue in Ukrainian?

- **1.** Two distinct basic terms are employed: SYniy for the dark and blakYtnyi for the light shade — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A single term embraces all shades, as in English — no support
- **3.** blakYtnyi denotes dark blue, whereas SYniy denotes light blue — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **4.** Blue is expressed solely by a word borrowed from English — score 4

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 3 with score 6, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 1: «In English «blue» is one colour with shades; in Ukrainian there are two everyday blues with their own names: SYniy, dark blue like jeans or a deep sea, and bla…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same doer «two everyday blues» (+2). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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State the arrangement of the colours of the Ukrainian flag as described in its constitution.

- **1.** Blue above and yellow below, in two equal stripes — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **2.** Blue, yellow and white in three stripes — no support
- **3.** Yellow upon a blue field with a star — no support
- **4.** Yellow above and blue below, in two equal stripes — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 16: «The Ukrainian constitution describes the flag as two equal stripes, blue above and yellow below.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+4); the same property (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Identify the derivation of the colour term pomarAnchevyi.

- **1.** From the word for tomato — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** From a French word for apple — no support
- **3.** From pomarAncha, an older word for the orange fruit — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** From the name of a breed of small fluffy dog from Pomerania — no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4}

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Ascertain the colour obtained by the admixture of BIlyi and CHOrnyi paint in equal measure.

- **1.** korYchnevyi — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** rOzhevyi — no support
- **3.** blakYtnyi — no support
- **4.** SIryi — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/10-the-colours-and-two-kinds-of-blue/e4/)

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