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title: A boy in Sydney gets $6 a week. He spends $2 and saves the rest for… — Taking care of your things and money · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Sydney gets $6 a week. He spends $2 and saves the rest for a $28 game. How long will he need? Test 1 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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
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# Test 1 · Taking care of your things and money

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A boy in Sydney gets $6 a week. He spends $2 and saves the rest for a $28 game. How long will he need?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** get, spend, save, need · **To what, where:** rest

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This is test 1 of lesson 37 «Taking care of your things and money» 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/37-things-and-money/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy in Sydney gets $6 a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:1
# text = A boy in Sydney gets $6 a week.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	$	$	SYM	$	_	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a boy in Sydney |  |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer $=Stimulus |

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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:* He spends $2 and saves the rest for a $28 game.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:2
# text = He spends $2 and saves the rest for a $28 game.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	$	$	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saves	save	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	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	$	$	SYM	$	_	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | present | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent $=Asset |
| 2 | **save** | present | boy *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  | for a $ game | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rest=Theme for game=Source |

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*Sentence 3:* How long will he need?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:3
# text = How long will he need?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | future | boy |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:o1:1
# text = 6 weeks
1	6	6	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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4 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:o2:1
# text = 4 weeks
1	4	4	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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7 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:o3:1
# text = 7 weeks
1	7	7	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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14 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t1:o4:1
# text = 14 weeks
1	14	14	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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**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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