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title: Ascertain the number of weeks required to save for an item costing £… — Olympiad: plans in order and money sum… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the number of weeks required to save for an item costing £36, given £8 already held and £4 saved weekly. Exam question 4 of lesson 62 «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★

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Ascertain the number of weeks required to save for an item costing £36, given £8 already held and £4 saved weekly.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, item · **What happens:** ascertain, require, save, cost, give, hold · **To what, where:** number, weeks

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 62 «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» of the adult life 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/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the number of weeks required to save for an item costing £36, given £8 already held and £4 saved weekly.
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	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	costing	cost	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	already	already	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 weeks |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **require** | participle |  | weeks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **save** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a item | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for item=Source |
| 4 | **cost** | gerund | a item *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **save** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | weekly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:e4:o1:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:e4:o2:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:e4:o3:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:e4:o4:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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