--- title: Count them: a ferry carries 30 cars and 4 lorries. How many vehicles? — Ships, ports and submarines · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a ferry carries 30 cars and 4 lorries. How many vehicles? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/t11/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/) / [Ships, ports and submarines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines Count them: a ferry carries 30 cars and 4 lorries. How many vehicles? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, ferry · **What happens:** count, carry · **To what, where:** them, 30 cars This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» 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/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a ferry carries 30 cars and 4 lorries. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t11:1 # text = Count them: a ferry carries 30 cars and 4 lorries. 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 : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 ferry ferry NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 lorries lorry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **carry** | present | a ferry | 30 cars and 4 lorries | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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. *Sentence 2:* How many vehicles? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t11:2 # text = How many vehicles? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 vehicles vehicle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 34 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t11:o1:1 # text = 34 1 34 34 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 26 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t11:o2:1 # text = 26 1 26 26 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t11:o3:1 # text = 30 1 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 120 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:24-ships-ports-and-submarines:t11:o4:1 # text = 120 1 120 120 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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