--- title: Count them: a street has 5 houses, and every second house has a dish… — Satellites and GPS · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a street has 5 houses, and every second house has a dish, starting from the first. How many dishes? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Satellites and GPS» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/t8/) [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/) / [Satellites and GPS](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/38-satellites-and-gps/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · Satellites and GPS Count them: a street has 5 houses, and every second house has a dish, starting from the first. How many dishes? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, street, second house · **What happens:** count, have, start · **To what, where:** them, 5 houses, dish, first This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Satellites and GPS» 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/38-satellites-and-gps/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a street has 5 houses, and every second house has a dish, starting from the first. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t8:1 # text = Count them: a street has 5 houses, and every second house has a dish, starting from the first. 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 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 12 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . 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 | **have** | present | a street | 5 houses | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | every second house | a dish | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | | 4 | **start** | gerund | every second house *not said here* | | | the first | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 dishes? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t8:2 # text = How many dishes? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dishes dish 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 {#o1} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t8:o1:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t8:o2:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t8:o3:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:38-satellites-and-gps:t8:o4:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS 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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