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title: Count them: a car factory has 3 lines with 8 robot arms on each. How… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a car factory has 3 lines with 8 robot arms on each. How many robot arms? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» 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 · ★ · Robots at work and at home

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Count them: a car factory has 3 lines with 8 robot arms on each. How many robot arms?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, car factory · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** them, 3 lines

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» 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/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a car factory has 3 lines with 8 robot arms on each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t8:1
# text = Count them: a car factory has 3 lines with 8 robot arms on each.
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	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	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 car factory | 3 lines |  |  |  | with 8 robot arms on each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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 robot arms?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t8:2
# text = How many robot arms?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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11

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t8:o1:1
# text = 11
1	11	11	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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32

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t8:o2:1
# text = 32
1	32	32	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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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t8:o3:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	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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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t8:o4:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	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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