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license: mit
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# ZNO dataset

This dataset contains machine-readable questions and answers from Ukrainian
External independent testing (called _ЗНО_/_ZNO_ in Ukrainian).

Question subjects are:

- History of Ukraine
- Ukrainian language and literature

Train set contains 3063 question/answers from 2006-2019 exams.
Test set is 751 question/answers from 2020-2023.


## File format

Every line in a .jsonl file contains a structure like this:

```js
{
  "question": "На другий склад падає наголос у слові",
  "answers": [
    { "marker": "А", "text": "начинка" },
    { "marker": "Б", "text": "випадок" },
    { "marker": "В", "text": "дрова" },
    { "marker": "Г", "text": "загадка" },
    { "marker": "Д", "text": "русло" }
  ],
  "correct_answers": ["Д"],
  "subject": "ukrainian-language-and-literature"
}

```

Currently, all questions have exactly one correct answer, stored in
`correct_answers[0]`.


## Dataset structure

| Subject                             | Subset | Size           |
|-------------------------------------|--------|----------------|
|ukrainian-language-and-literature    | train  | 1925 questions |
|ukrainian-language-and-literature    | test   |  403 questions |
|history-of-ukraine                   | train  | 1138 questions |
|history-of-ukraine                   | test   |  348 questions |


## Pre/postprocessing

* Question text is converted to Markdown.
* Questions with images are skipped (~600 cases).
* Open-ended questions ("Write your thoughts about...") are skipped.
* Questions that require matching multiple statements to multiple choices are skipped.
* Links to full texts of literature pieces are removed.


## Sources:

- https://zno.osvita.ua/comtests.html


## Other

This dataset is used in [UNLP 2024 Shared Task](https://github.com/unlp-workshop/unlp-2024-shared-task)