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title: A 2-by-4 Lego brick has 8 studs on top. How many studs are on 3 such… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics
description: A 2-by-4 Lego brick has 8 studs on top. How many studs are on 3 such bricks? Test 9 · ★★ 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 was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Toys and Lego

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A 2-by-4 Lego brick has 8 studs on top. How many studs are on 3 such bricks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 2 4 Lego brick, many studs · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 8 studs, top, 3 such bricks

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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/7-toys-and-lego/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A 2-by-4 Lego brick has 8 studs on top.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t9:1
# text = A 2-by-4 Lego brick has 8 studs on top.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	Lego	Lego	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	studs	stud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a 2 4 Lego brick | 8 studs |  | top |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stud=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 studs are on 3 such bricks?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t9:2
# text = How many studs are on 3 such bricks?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	studs	stud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many studs |  |  | 3 such bricks |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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11

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t9: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:7-toys-and-lego:t9: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t9:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t9:o4:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	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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