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title: Each car has 4 wheels and a spare tyre. How many tyres for 5 cars? — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics
description: Each car has 4 wheels and a spare tyre. How many tyres for 5 cars? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 8 «How a car is built» 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 6 · ★ · How a car is built

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Each car has 4 wheels and a spare tyre. How many tyres for 5 cars?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** car · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 4 wheels

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 8 «How a car is built» 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/8-how-a-car-is-built/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Each car has 4 wheels and a spare tyre.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t6:1
# text = Each car has 4 wheels and a spare tyre.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	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	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tyre	tyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each car | 4 wheels and a spare tyre |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=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 tyres for 5 cars?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t6:2
# text = How many tyres for 5 cars?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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21

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t6:o1:1
# text = 21
1	21	21	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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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t6:o2:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	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 {#o3}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t6:o3:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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25

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t6:o4:1
# text = 25
1	25	25	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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