--- title: Ascertain the number of advertisements displayed during a period of… — Adverts and how they work on you · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of advertisements displayed during a period of thirty minutes, one advertisement being displayed every three minutes. Exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Adverts and how they work on you](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Adverts and how they work on you Ascertain the number of advertisements displayed during a period of thirty minutes, one advertisement being displayed every three minutes. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, number · **What happens:** ascertain, display · **To what, where:** one advertisement This is exam question 2 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money 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/money/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the number of advertisements displayed during a period of thirty minutes, one advertisement being displayed every three minutes. 1 Ascertain ascertain 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 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 advertisements advertisement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 displayed display VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 during during ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 advertisement advertisement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 displayed display VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **display** | past | the number | | | | during a period of thirty minutes | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **display** | gerund · passive | | one advertisement | | | minute | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 {#o1} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e2:o1:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 33 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e2:o2:1 # text = 33 1 33 33 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e2:o3:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 90 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e2:o4:1 # text = 90 1 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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