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title: Determine the aggregate number of wheels upon seven toy cars, it bei… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the aggregate number of wheels upon seven toy cars, it being given that each car possesses four wheels. Exam question 4 of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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
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# Exam question 4 · Toys and Lego

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Determine the aggregate number of wheels upon seven toy cars, it being given that each car possesses four wheels.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, car · **What happens:** determine, give, possess · **To what, where:** aggregate number, number, four wheels

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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/7-toys-and-lego/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:e4:1
# text = Determine the aggregate number of wheels upon seven toy cars, it being given that each car possesses four wheels.
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	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	wheels	wheel	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 wheels |  |  |  | upon seven toy cars | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | gerund · passive |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | present | each car | four wheels |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wheel=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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Thirty-two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:e4:o1:1
# text = Thirty-two
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eleven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:e4:o2:1
# text = Eleven
1	Eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Twenty-four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:e4:o3:1
# text = Twenty-four
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Twenty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:e4:o4:1
# text = Twenty-eight
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eight	eight	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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