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title: State the number of occurrences of the letter "r" in the word "straw… — Who you are: being wrong and learning · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of occurrences of the letter "r" in the word "strawberry", as ascertained by sequential examination of each letter. Exam question 3 of lesson 29 «Who you are: being wrong and learning» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 3 · Who you are: being wrong and learning

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State the number of occurrences of the letter "r" in the word "strawberry", as ascertained by sequential examination of each letter.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, ascertain, examine · **To what, where:** number, word, letter

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 29 «Who you are: being wrong and learning» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning:e3:1
# text = State the number of occurrences of the letter "r" in the word "strawberry", as ascertained by sequential examination of each letter.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	occurrences	occurrence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ascertained	ascertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sequential	sequential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of occurrences of the letter |  | the word |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **ascertain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by sequential examination of each letter | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **examine** |  |  | each letter |  |  |  |  | nom examination «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning:e3:o1:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning:e3:o2:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning:e3:o3:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning:e3:o4:1
# text = One
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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