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title: A box of chocolates has 3 layers of 8. Mum eats 2. How many are left? — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: A box of chocolates has 3 layers of 8. Mum eats 2. How many are left? Test 10 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; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · Chocolate and sweets

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A box of chocolates has 3 layers of 8. Mum eats 2. How many are left?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** box, Mum · **What happens:** have, eat, leave · **To what, where:** 3 layers, 2, many

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This is test 10 of lesson 2 «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A box of chocolates has 3 layers of 8.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:1
# text = A box of chocolates has 3 layers of 8.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	chocolates	chocolate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a box of chocolates | 3 layers of 8 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Mum eats 2.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:2
# text = Mum eats 2.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Mum | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Patient |

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*Sentence 3:* How many are left?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:3
# text = How many are left?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · passive |  | many |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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22

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:o1:1
# text = 22
1	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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26

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:o2:1
# text = 26
1	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:o3:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:2-chocolate-and-sweets:t10:o4:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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