Development of a system for evaluating cognitive function of introducing ellipses in the texts of planimetric problems

K. A. Naidenova^a, E. S. Bulykina^b, T. A. Martirova<sup>a

a</sup> Saint Petersburg Medical Academy
^b Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Abstract: The work is devoted to the study of the cognitive function associated with generating elliptical sentences in the Russian language. This function was tested using an open-source system. The material for testing covers only verbal and nominal ellipses, theoretically fully recoverable on the basis of the context. The texts of planimetric tasks were chosen as testing material. When analyzing the test results, the following facts were revealed: the influence of the respondent’s knowledge in the subject area (planimetry) on the understanding of sentences and on the understanding of the syntactic rules for the construction of ellipses; tendency to self-education of respondents; respondents’ tendency to remove any parts from sentences that they consider redundant. Thus, the cognitive function of the formation of ellipses has an integrative character and includes a linguistic component (syntax), knowledge of the subject area and mental operations of sentence formation. Due to the revealed complexity of the tested function, the task of evaluating the test results also becomes more complicated. The article is devoted to the consideration of various models for assessing the work of respondents both on an integral basis and in relation to each identified component of the cognitive function.

Keywords: online testing system, experiments, cognitive function, ellipsis, planimetry, assessment systems.

DOI: 10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(3)-13