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title: Ascertain the reason for which scammers request gift cards. — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the reason for which scammers request gift cards. Exam question 4 of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 4 · Pocket money, saving and spending

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Ascertain the reason for which scammers request gift cards.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, scammers · **What happens:** ascertain, request · **To what, where:** reason, gift cards

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the reason for which scammers request gift cards.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
6	scammers	scammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	request	request	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 reason |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 2 | **request** | present | scammers | gift cards |  |  |  | for the reason | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent card=Recipient |

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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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Gift cards earn the sender interest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e4:o1:1
# text = Gift cards earn the sender interest
1	Gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sender	sender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **earn** | present | Gift cards | the sender interest |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Money on gift cards is very hard to trace or recover

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e4:o2:1
# text = Money on gift cards is very hard to trace or recover
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Money on gift cards |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trace** | to-infinitive | Money on gift cards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recover** | infinitive | Money on gift cards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Gift cards are required by law

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e4:o3:1
# text = Gift cards are required by law
1	Gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | present · passive | law | Gift cards |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Precondition |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Gift cards are cheaper than money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:e4:o4:1
# text = Gift cards are cheaper than money
1	Gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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