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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★

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«Saving £3 a week, sorry, £4 a week, for a £20 speaker, sound.» How many weeks does it take?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many weeks · **What happens:** save, take · **To what, where:** sound

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Saving £3 a week, sorry, £4 a week, for a £20 speaker, sound.»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t9:1
# text = «Saving £3 a week, sorry, £4 a week, for a £20 speaker, sound.»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | week | for a £ speaker and sound | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent £=Theme for speaker=Beneficiary |

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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:* How many weeks does it take?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t9:2
# text = How many weeks does it take?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	expl	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · do-support | many weeks | sound |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t9:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t9:o2:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t9:o3:1
# 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.

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

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums:t9:o4:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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