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title: Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a wee… — Prices, change, borrowing and lending · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money. How many weeks will it take? Test 5 · ★★ 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
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Prices, change, borrowing and lending

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Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money. How many weeks will it take?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, you, many weeks · **What happens:** lend, agree, pay back, take · **To what, where:** you, pocket money, money

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 262 «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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/262-prices-change-and-borrowing/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:t5:1
# text = Your mum lends you $10 for a gift and you agree to pay back $2 a week from pocket money.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lends	lend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	$	$	SYM	$	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	$	$	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | present | Your mum |  | you |  |  | for a gift | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient $=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pay back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | pocket money | week |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Asset |

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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 will it take?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:t5:2
# text = How many weeks will 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	will	will	AUX	MD	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** | future | many weeks | money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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10 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:t5:o1:1
# text = 10 weeks
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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8 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:t5:o2:1
# text = 8 weeks
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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5 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:t5:o3:1
# text = 5 weeks
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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2 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:262-prices-change-and-borrowing:t5:o4:1
# text = 2 weeks
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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