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description: Mum: "Ten gaps, Pete, eleven posts." How many posts does a 5-metre fence with a post every metre need? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was r
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right

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Mum: "Ten gaps, Pete, eleven posts." How many posts does a 5-metre fence with a post every metre need?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many posts · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** metre fence

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world 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/world/182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum: "Ten gaps, Pete, eleven posts."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t4:1
# text = Mum: "Ten gaps, Pete, eleven posts."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Pete	Pete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* How many posts does a 5-metre fence with a post every metre need?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t4:2
# text = How many posts does a 5-metre fence with a post every metre need?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | many posts | a metre fence |  |  |  | with a post | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t4:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t4:o2:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t4:o3:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right:t4:o4:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	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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