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title: Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole… — Olympiad: plans in order and money sum… · tree and pragmatics
description: Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole year. Which is cheaper, chur?» Test 10 · ★★★ 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 of each option; 
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★

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Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole year. Which is cheaper, chur?»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** pay, be

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 62 «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★» 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/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t10:1
# text = Phone deal: «£8 a month for 12 months, or £90 paid now for the whole year.
1	Phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  | now; year |  | vn pay-68-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is cheaper, chur?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t10:2
# text = Which is cheaper, chur?»
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	chur	chur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | chur *obl*; cheap *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They cost the same, £90

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t10:o1:1
# text = They cost the same, £90
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	90	90	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 | **cost** | past | They | the same |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Paying monthly saves £2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t10:o2:1
# text = Paying monthly saves £2
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	csubj	_	_
2	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | monthly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | present | Paying |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Paying monthly saves £6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t10:o3:1
# text = Paying monthly saves £6
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	csubj	_	_
2	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | monthly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | present | Paying |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Paying the £90 now saves £6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t10:o4:1
# text = Paying the £90 now saves £6
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	90	90	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
6	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
| 2 | **save** | present | Paying |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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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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