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title: Ascertain the number of grams contained in one kilogram. — Measuring the world — length, mass, ti… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the number of grams contained in one kilogram. Exam question 1 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature

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Ascertain the number of grams contained in one kilogram.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, contain · **To what, where:** number, grams, one kilogram

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» of the world 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/world/90-measuring-the-world/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the number of grams contained in one kilogram.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kilogram	kilogram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of grams |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | grams *not said here* |  | one kilogram |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in kilogram=Location |

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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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Ten thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:e1:o1:1
# text = Ten thousand
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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One thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:e1:o2:1
# text = One thousand
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:e1:o3:1
# text = One hundred
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:e1:o4:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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