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title: Mum: "One and a half? Put it back in the story, Pete. Does it fit?"… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum: "One and a half? Put it back in the story, Pete. Does it fit?" A bag of flour weighs 2 kg and half a bag. How much does the whole bag weigh? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Sounds right, but is wrong

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Mum: "One and a half? Put it back in the story, Pete. Does it fit?" A bag of flour weighs 2 kg and half a bag. How much does the whole bag weigh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, half, bag, much · **What happens:** put back, fit, weigh, do · **To what, where:** half, story, 2 kg, whole bag weigh

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 183 «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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/183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum: "One and a half?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:1
# text = Mum: "One and a half?
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Put it back in the story, Pete.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:2
# text = Put it back in the story, Pete.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Pete	Pete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put back** | imperative | you *not said here* | half |  | the story |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in story=Destination |

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*Sentence 3:* Does it fit?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:3
# text = Does it fit?"
1	Does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present · do-support | half |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 4:* A bag of flour weighs 2 kg and half a bag.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:4
# text = A bag of flour weighs 2 kg and half a bag.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | present | a bag of flour | 2 kg and half bag |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value |

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*Sentence 5:* How much does the whole bag weigh?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:5
# text = How much does the whole bag weigh?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	weigh	weigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | much | the whole bag weigh |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weigh=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
2 kg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:o1:1
# text = 2 kg
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
2 kg and a bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:o2:1
# text = 2 kg and a bit
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
3 kg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:o3:1
# text = 3 kg
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
4 kg altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong:t5:o4:1
# text = 4 kg altogether
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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