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title: Count them: a street has 2 phone masts and each mast has 3 antennas.… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a street has 2 phone masts and each mast has 3 antennas. How many antennas? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» 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 8 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels

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Count them: a street has 2 phone masts and each mast has 3 antennas. How many antennas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, street, mast · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** them, 2 phone masts, 3 antennas

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» 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/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a street has 2 phone masts and each mast has 3 antennas.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t8:1
# text = Count them: a street has 2 phone masts and each mast has 3 antennas.
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	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	antennas	antenna	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	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 | **have** | present | a street | 2 phone masts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mast=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | each mast | 3 antennas |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antenna=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:* How many antennas?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t8:2
# text = How many antennas?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	antennas	antenna	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:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t8: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 {#o2}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t8:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t8:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t8:o4:1
# 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.

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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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