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title: A boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without op… — Pocket money, saving and spending · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without opening it. Roughly how much will he have? Test 1 · ★★ 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
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Pocket money, saving and spending

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A boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without opening it. Roughly how much will he have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** put, open, have · **To what, where:** money box, box, much

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 261 «Pocket money, saving and spending» of the everyday 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/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without opening it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t1:1
# text = A boy in Leeds puts £1 a week in his money box for a year without opening it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | a boy in Leeds |  |  | boy's money box for a year | week |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent £=Theme in box=Destination |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | a boy in Leeds *not said here* | box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

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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:* Roughly how much will he have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t1:2
# text = Roughly how much will he have?
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	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 | **have** | future | boy | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About £12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t1:o1:1
# text = About £12
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About £100

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t1:o2:1
# text = About £100
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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About £52

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t1:o3:1
# text = About £52
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About £5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending:t1:o4:1
# text = About £5
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
```

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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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