Exam question 4 · How a car is built

Determine the aggregate number of tyres required for six cars, it being given that each car is fitted with four wheels and one spare.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, require, give, fit · To what, where: aggregate number, tyres, number, car

This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «How a car is built» of the technology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 number	compound
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tyres	case
6	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
7	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tyres	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 cars	case
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cars	nummod
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 required	obl:agent
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 given	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	nsubj:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 given	aux:pass
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Determine	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 fitted	mark
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 car	det
17	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fitted	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fitted	aux:pass
19	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 given	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 wheels	case
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 wheels	nummod
22	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fitted	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spare	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 spare	nummod
25	spare	spare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wheels	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the aggregate number of tyres		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	require	participle		tyres not said here		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	give	gerund · passive		number		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	fit	present · passive		each car	with four wheels and one spare	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Twenty-four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 four	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	conj

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

Option 3

Twenty-five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/e4/