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description: Determine the aggregate quantity of sweets contained in four bags, it being given that each bag contains fifteen sweets. Exam question 4 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Exam question 4 · Chocolate and sweets

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Determine the aggregate quantity of sweets contained in four bags, it being given that each bag contains fifteen sweets.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, bag · **What happens:** determine, contain, give · **To what, where:** aggregate quantity, sweets, four bags, quantity, fifteen sweets

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e4:1
# text = Determine the aggregate quantity of sweets contained in four bags, it being given that each bag contains fifteen sweets.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate quantity of sweets |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | sweets *not said here* |  | four bags |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bag=Location |
| 3 | **give** | gerund · passive |  | quantity |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **contain** | present | each bag | fifteen sweets |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sweet=Theme |

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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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Sixty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e4:o1:1
# text = Sixty
1	Sixty	sixty	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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Nineteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e4:o2:1
# text = Nineteen
1	Nineteen	nineteen	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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Forty-five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e4:o3:1
# text = Forty-five
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seventy-five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:e4:o4:1
# text = Seventy-five
1	Seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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