--- title: Identify the approximate value of a price of $4.99. — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the approximate value of a price of $4.99. Exam question 1 of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Prices, change, borrowing and lending](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Prices, change, borrowing and lending Identify the approximate value of a price of $4.99. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, value · **To what, where:** approximate value, price This is exam question 1 of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e1:1 # text = Identify the approximate value of a price of $4.99. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 $ $ SYM $ _ 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 4.99 4.99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate value of a price | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent value=Theme | | 2 | **value** | | | a price | | | | | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Nearly five dollars ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e1:o1:1 # text = Nearly five dollars 1 Nearly nearly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} About six dollars, if you round it ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e1:o2:1 # text = About six dollars, if you round it 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 round round VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **round** | present | six dollars | it | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Exactly four dollars and nine cents ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e1:o3:1 # text = Exactly four dollars and nine cents 1 Exactly exactly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 cents cent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Approximately four dollars ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e1:o4:1 # text = Approximately four dollars 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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