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title: Count them: a remote control needs 2 AA batteries and a torch needs… — Batteries · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a remote control needs 2 AA batteries and a torch needs 3. How many for both? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 34 «Batteries» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Batteries

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Count them: a remote control needs 2 AA batteries and a torch needs 3. How many for both?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, remote control, torch · **What happens:** count, need · **To what, where:** them, 2 AA batteries, 3

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 34 «Batteries» 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/34-batteries/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a remote control needs 2 AA batteries and a torch needs 3.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:34-batteries:t6:1
# text = Count them: a remote control needs 2 AA batteries and a torch needs 3.
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	AA	AA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **need** | present | a remote control | 2 AA batteries |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme |
| 3 | **need** | present | a torch | 3 |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 3=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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many for both?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:34-batteries:t6:2
# text = How many for both?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:34-batteries:t6:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:34-batteries:t6:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:34-batteries:t6:o3:1
# 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:34-batteries:t6:o4:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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