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title: Mum, scrolling: "£4 coffee, £3 coffee, £5 sandwich... bloody hell, t… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum, scrolling: "£4 coffee, £3 coffee, £5 sandwich... bloody hell, that's £60 this week!" What is she learning? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 39 «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 2 · ★ · Money, work and the big choices

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Mum, scrolling: "£4 coffee, £3 coffee, £5 sandwich... bloody hell, that's £60 this week!" What is she learning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** scroll, learn · **To what, where:** £ coffee

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 39 «Money, work and the big choices» of the adult life 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/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum, scrolling: "£4 coffee, £3 coffee, £5 sandwich... bloody hell, that's £60 this week!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t2:1
# text = Mum, scrolling: "£4 coffee, £3 coffee, £5 sandwich... bloody hell, that's £60 this week!"
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scroll** | gerund |  | £ coffee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* What is she learning?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t2:2
# text = What is she learning?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present · progressive | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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Small spends add up fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t2:o1:1
# text = Small spends add up fast
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spends	spend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | Small spends |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Coffee prices went up by £60

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t2:o2:1
# text = Coffee prices went up by £60
1	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Coffee prices |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sandwiches are free on Fridays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t2:o3:1
# text = Sandwiches are free on Fridays
1	Sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sandwiches |  |  |  | friday | free *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bank made a mistake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:39-money-work-and-the-big-choices:t2:o4:1
# text = The bank made a mistake
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the bank | a mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |

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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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