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title: A tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pi… — Tunnels and what lies under the street · tree and pragmatics
description: A tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pieces. How many pieces? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 w
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

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A tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pieces. How many pieces?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lining · **What happens:** have, make, curve · **To what, where:** 20 rings, ring

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pieces.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t11:1
# text = A tunnel's lining has 20 rings, and each ring is made of 6 curved pieces.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lining	lining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a tunnel's lining | 20 rings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | each ring |  |  |  | of 6 curved pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |

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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 pieces?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t11:2
# text = How many pieces?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pieces	piece	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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26

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t11:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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100

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t11:o2:1
# text = 100
1	100	100	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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60

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t11:o3:1
# text = 60
1	60	60	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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120

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t11:o4:1
# text = 120
1	120	120	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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