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title: Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy" — how Mova does on the tests · Ukrainian street
description: Lesson 6 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 0 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# Brothers, aunties, cousins and the polite "vy"

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**Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 0 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 6 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/).

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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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/).

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### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

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«brat means a naughty kid, like English» Which is right?

- **1.** Yes, it means a spoilt child — score 6
- **2.** Yes, it is an insult — no support
- **3.** No, it means cousin — **← Mova's choice** · score 12
- **4.** No, brat means brother — **✓ the right answer** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 12, tied with another option at 12 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 6, line 10: «dvoYUrIdnyi brat means cousin, a boy cousin, and cousins are very close in many Ukrainian families.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «dvoyuridnyi brat» (+4); the same thing acted on «cousin» (+4). The right option, 4, scored 12. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2}

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You say «ty» to Sashko's granny: «a ty budesh chai?» (will you have tea?). What would happen?

- **1.** Nothing, ty is the polite form for grannies — no support
- **2.** She would think you meant the cat in the kitchen — no support
- **3.** It would sound cheeky; a guest says vy to her — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 6
- **4.** She would answer in English — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 13: «vy is the polite «you» to grown-ups; saying ty to the friend's granny is cheeky, and even where kids say ty to their own mum, a guest uses vy.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «guest» (+4); the same thing acted on «vy» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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«Sashko calls his own mum ty, so I can too» What is right?

- **1.** No, nobody ever says ty to a mum — **← Mova's choice** · score 10
- **2.** Some families let their kids say ty, but a guest uses vy — **✓ the right answer** · score 8
- **3.** Yes, a guest always copies the kids — no support
- **4.** Yes, ty is polite to all mums — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 6, line 13: «vy is the polite «you» to grown-ups; saying ty to the friend's granny is cheeky, and even where kids say ty to their own mum, a guest uses vy.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same thing acted on «ty» (+4); the same receiver «own mum» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 8. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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Sashko says his dvoYUrIdnyi brat Ivan is coming. Ivan is the son of Sashko's aunt. Who is Ivan to Sashko?

- **1.** His cousin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** His younger brother — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **3.** His godfather — no support
- **4.** His uncle, Mum's brother — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 7: «molOdshyi brat means younger brother, and stArshyi means older.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «younger brother» (+4); the same property (+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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t5}

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Sashko's mum calls her best friend «Maryna» and Sashko calls her «TItko Maryno». Is Maryna his real aunt?

- **1.** Yes, TItko is only for real aunts, Mum's or Dad's sisters — no support
- **2.** No, TItko means teacher — no support
- **3.** Not necessarily — kids say TItko to family friends too — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 16
- **4.** Yes, TItko means mum's sister by law — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 16, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 8: «TItka or TItochka means auntie, and kids also say TItko politely to women friends of the family; calling a strange woman TItka in a shop can sound rude.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+4); the same doer «kids» (+4); the same thing acted on «titko» (+4); the same receiver «women friends» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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«sim'ya means seven, sim is seven» Which is right?

- **1.** No, it means summer — no support
- **2.** Yes, a family of exactly seven people, no more — no support
- **3.** Yes, it's a number — no support
- **4.** No, sim'yA means family; sim alone is seven — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 12

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 11: «sim'yA means family; the apostrophe marks a little break, seem-YAH.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «mean» (+4); the same doer «sim'ya» (+4); the same thing acted on «family» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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«de tvoyi batky?» asks a policeman at the fair. What does he want to know?

- **1.** Where your bike is — no support
- **2.** Where your brother is — no support
- **3.** Where your parents are — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** Where your shoes are — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 12: «batkY means parents, as in de tvoyi batky? (where are your parents?), while bAtko is a formal word for father.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «parents» (+3); the same property (+1); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8}

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The teacher's father was called Ivan and she is Mariya. What would happen if you called her Mariya IvAnivna?

- **1.** She would think you were rude — no support
- **2.** She would think you meant her mum — no support
- **3.** It would sound very respectful — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **4.** She would correct you to TItko — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 4, line 17: «Calling a friend by his full name, like Oleksandr, can sound as if his mum is cross with him.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sound» (+4). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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«Granny keeps saying onUk to me, is that my name now?» Which is the best answer?

- **1.** It's a nickname for a cat, she thinks you're cute — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It means naughty — no support
- **3.** It means grandson — she treats you like one of hers — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It means guest, the polite word for a visitor — 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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In a cartoon a boy shouts «stArshyi brat!» at his little brother. What is wrong?

- **1.** stArshyi is only for uncles — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** stArshyi means older; the little one is molOdshyi — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** stArshyi means sister — no support
- **4.** Nothing, stArshyi means little, the youngest in the family — 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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«oi bratan, give it here» says a boy to his friend. What is bratan here?

- **1.** his real brother, born to the same mum — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** an insult — no support
- **3.** his uncle — no support
- **4.** bro, a friendly word between boys — **✓ 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/t11/)

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

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Identify the form of the second-person pronoun that a visiting child is expected to employ in addressing the grandmother of his companion.

- **1.** tvIy — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** ty — no support
- **3.** vy — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** tvoya — 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e2}

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Select the response consistent with the established usage of the first name together with the father's name.

- **1.** It is regarded as discourteous in all circumstances — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It is reserved for addressing younger siblings — no support
- **3.** It constitutes the respectful mode of address towards teachers and older adults — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** It is employed only by grandparents towards their grandchildren upon formal occasions — 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/e2/)

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

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Ascertain the relationship denoted by dvoYUrIdnyi brat.

- **1.** A younger brother — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** A godfather — no support
- **3.** A male cousin — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A stepfather — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 6, line 7: «molOdshyi brat means younger brother, and stArshyi means older.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «younger brother» (+4); the same property (+2). The right option, 3, 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/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/e3/)

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

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the word TItka?

- **1.** It is a word employed only in respect of men — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** It denotes a grandmother exclusively — score 4
- **3.** It denotes an aunt and may be extended to female friends of the family, whereas addressed to an unknown woman it may appear discourteous — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** It is a formal title for female teachers — score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 5, line 4: «Watch the little words: druh is a friend who is a boy, podRUha a friend who is a girl, and neither means a boyfriend or girlfriend among kids.», 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 «friend» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/ukrainian-street/6-brothers-aunties-cousins-polite-vy/e4/)

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