--- title: Select the response consistent with established practice upon receiv… — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics description: Select the response consistent with established practice upon receiving excess change. Exam question 3 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 --- [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/e3/) [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/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Prices, change, borrowing and lending Select the response consistent with established practice upon receiving excess change. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established practice · **What happens:** select, establish, receive · **To what, where:** response, excess change This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e3:1 # text = Select the response consistent with established practice upon receiving excess change. 1 Select select VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 consistent consistent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 upon upon SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 receiving receive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 excess excess ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | | 2 | **establish** | participle | | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **receive** | gerund | established practice *not said here* | excess change | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme | 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} One retains it as good fortune ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e3:o1:1 # text = One retains it as good fortune 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 retains retain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **retain** | present | One | it | | | | as good fortune | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} One spends it at once ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e3:o2:1 # text = One spends it at once 1 One one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spends spend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present | One | it | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ### Option 3 {#o3} One returns only half of it to the assistant ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e3:o3:1 # text = One returns only half of it to the assistant 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 returns return VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 assistant assistant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | present | One | half of half | | the assistant | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme to assistant=Destination | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} One informs the assistant and returns the extra ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:e3:o4:1 # text = One informs the assistant and returns the extra 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 informs inform VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 assistant assistant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 returns return VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | present | One | the assistant | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assistant=Recipient | | 2 | **return** | present | One *not said here* | the extra | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Theme | **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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