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description: Count them: at the helipad there are 2 helicopters, each with a main rotor and a tail rotor. How many rotors? Test 10 of lesson 23 «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 10 · Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones

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Count them: at the helipad there are 2 helicopters, each with a main rotor and a tail rotor. How many rotors?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 2 helicopters · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** them, helipad

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This is test 10 of lesson 23 «Airports, the black box, helicopters and drones» 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/23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: at the helipad there are 2 helicopters, each with a main rotor and a tail rotor.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones:t10:1
# text = Count them: at the helipad there are 2 helicopters, each with a main rotor and a tail rotor.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	helipad	helipad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	appos	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rotor	rotor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	rotor	rotor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | 2 helicopters |  |  | the helipad; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at helipad=Location |

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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:* How many rotors?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones:t10:2
# text = How many rotors?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rotors	rotor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones:t10:o1:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones:t10:o2:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones:t10:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:23-airports-black-box-helicopters-drones:t10:o4:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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