---
title: A crate holds 4 rows of 6 bottles. How many bottles are in 2 crates? — Bottles, cans and recycling · tree and pragmatics
description: A crate holds 4 rows of 6 bottles. How many bottles are in 2 crates? Test 8 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Bottles, cans and recycling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/) / t8

# Test 8 · Bottles, cans and recycling

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A crate holds 4 rows of 6 bottles. How many bottles are in 2 crates?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** crate, many bottles · **What happens:** hold, be · **To what, where:** 4 rows, 2 crates

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/#t8).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* A crate holds 4 rows of 6 bottles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t8:1
# text = A crate holds 4 rows of 6 bottles.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crate	crate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | a crate | 4 rows of 6 bottles |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* How many bottles are in 2 crates?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t8:2
# text = How many bottles are in 2 crates?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	crates	crate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many bottles |  |  | 2 crates |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
48

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t8:o1:1
# text = 48
1	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
34

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t8:o2:1
# text = 34
1	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t8:o3:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:4-bottles-cans-and-recycling:t8:o4:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Bottles, cans and recycling, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/t7/)
- next →: [Bottles, cans and recycling, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Bottles, cans and recycling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/4-bottles-cans-and-recycling/)

