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title: paid with a 5, it was 3.50, how much back — Taking care of your things and money · tree and pragmatics
description: paid with a 5, it was 3.50, how much back Test 12 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 was right.
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# Test 12 · Taking care of your things and money

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paid with a 5, it was 3.50, how much back

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** pay, be · **To what, where:** much back, 3.50

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This is test 12 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t12:1
# text = paid with a 5, it was 3.50, how much back
1	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	3.50	3.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  | much back |  |  |  | with a 5 | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | it | 3.50 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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1.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t12:o1:1
# text = 1.50
1	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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50p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t12:o2:1
# text = 50p
1	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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3.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t12:o3:1
# text = 3.50
1	3.50	3.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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2.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:37-things-and-money:t12:o4:1
# text = 2.50
1	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	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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