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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the value of a United States dime? Exam question 1 of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 1 · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the value of a United States dime?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris, value · **To what, where:** value, States dime

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the value of a United States dime?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	dime	dime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the value of a States dime |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **value** |  |  | a States dime |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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One cent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:e1:o1:1
# text = One cent
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Five cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:e1:o2:1
# text = Five cents
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twenty-five cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:e1:o3:1
# text = Twenty-five cents
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Ten cents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:e1:o4:1
# text = Ten cents
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	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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**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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