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title: Determine the aggregate number of bottles contained in three crates,… — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the aggregate number of bottles contained in three crates, it being given that each crate holds twenty bottles. Exam question 4 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 4 · Bottles, cans and recycling

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Determine the aggregate number of bottles contained in three crates, it being given that each crate holds twenty bottles.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, crate · **What happens:** determine, contain, give, hold · **To what, where:** aggregate number, bottles, three crates, number, twenty bottles

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:e4:1
# text = Determine the aggregate number of bottles contained in three crates, it being given that each crate holds twenty bottles.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	crates	crate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	crate	crate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate number of bottles |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | bottles *not said here* |  | three crates |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in crate=Location |
| 3 | **give** | gerund · passive |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | present | each crate | twenty bottles |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Forty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:e4:o1:1
# text = Forty
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ninety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:e4:o2:1
# text = Ninety
1	Ninety	ninety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Sixty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:e4:o3:1
# text = Sixty
1	Sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Twenty-three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:e4:o4:1
# text = Twenty-three
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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