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description: A full 2-litre bottle of water is put on scales. About what will they show, not counting the bottle? Test 6 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
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# Test 6 · Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature

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A full 2-litre bottle of water is put on scales. About what will they show, not counting the bottle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** scales · **What happens:** put, show, not count · **To what, where:** full litre bottle, scales, bottle

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This is test 6 of lesson 90 «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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/90-measuring-the-world/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A full 2-litre bottle of water is put on scales.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t6:1
# text = A full 2-litre bottle of water is put on scales.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present · passive |  | a full litre bottle of water |  | scales |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on scale=Destination |

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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:* About what will they show, not counting the bottle?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t6:2
# text = About what will they show, not counting the bottle?
1	About	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | future | scales *= scale* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **count** | gerund | scales *= scale* *not said here* | the bottle |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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200 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t6:o1:1
# text = 200 kilograms
1	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t6:o2:1
# text = 20 kilograms
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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2 kilograms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t6:o3:1
# text = 2 kilograms
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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2 grams

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:90-measuring-the-world:t6:o4:1
# text = 2 grams
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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