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title: A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill.… — Coins, pocket money, saving, spending… · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill. How much change should she get? Test 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 and o
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# Test 1 · ★ · Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning…

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A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill. How much change should she get?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl, much change · **What happens:** pay, get

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 308 «Coins, pocket money, saving, spending wisely and planning time» 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/308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t1:1
# text = A girl in New York pays for a 70-cent snack with a one-dollar bill.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	snack	snack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | a girl in New York |  |  |  |  | for a cent snack; with a dollar bill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for snack=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:* How much change should she get?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t1:2
# text = How much change should she get?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	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 | **get** | should | much change |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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25 cents, for example one quarter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t1:o1:1
# text = 25 cents, for example one quarter
1	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
3 cents, for example three pennies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t1:o2:1
# text = 3 cents, for example three pennies
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
70 cents, for example two quarters and two dimes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t1:o3:1
# text = 70 cents, for example two quarters and two dimes
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	dimes	dime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
30 cents, for example one quarter and one nickel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:308-coins-pocket-money-saving-and-planning-time:t1:o4:1
# text = 30 cents, for example one quarter and one nickel
1	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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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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