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title: Determine the aggregate number of stitches executed by a machine ope… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the aggregate number of stitches executed by a machine operating at five thousand stitches per minute over a period of three minutes. Exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 4 · Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers

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Determine the aggregate number of stitches executed by a machine operating at five thousand stitches per minute over a period of three minutes.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, machine · **What happens:** determine, execute, operate · **To what, where:** aggregate number, stitches, thousand stitches

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» 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/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers:e4:1
# text = Determine the aggregate number of stitches executed by a machine operating at five thousand stitches per minute over a period of three minutes.
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	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	machine	machine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	operating	operate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	per	per	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 stitches |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **execute** | participle |  | stitches *not said here* |  |  |  | by a machine | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **operate** | gerund | a machine *not said here* |  |  | thousand stitches per minute |  | over a period of three minutes | vn function-105.2.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Five thousand and three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers:e4:o1:1
# text = Five thousand and three
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Fifteen thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers:e4:o2:1
# text = Fifteen thousand
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eight thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers:e4:o3:1
# text = Eight thousand
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fifty thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers:e4:o4:1
# text = Fifty thousand
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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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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