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title: «saved £3, spent £3 on sweets, then saved £3, spent £3». How much ha… — Promises to friends and to yourself · tree and pragmatics
description: «saved £3, spent £3 on sweets, then saved £3, spent £3». How much has he got for the football? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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 wa
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Promises to friends and to yourself

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«saved £3, spent £3 on sweets, then saved £3, spent £3». How much has he got for the football?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** much, he · **What happens:** save, spend, have, get · **To what, where:** sweets

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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/359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «saved £3, spent £3 on sweets, then saved £3, spent £3».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t3:1
# text = «saved £3, spent £3 on sweets, then saved £3, spent £3».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on sweets *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent £=Asset on sweet=Goal |
| 3 | **save** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |
| 4 | **spend** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «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 much has he got for the football?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t3:2
# text = How much has he got for the football?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | much |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | he |  |  |  |  | for the football | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for football=Source |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t3:o2:1
# text = £6
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t3:o3:1
# text = £3
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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£12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself:t3:o4:1
# text = £12
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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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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