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description: Whereas a sum of twenty pounds is received and one half thereof is reserved for saving, determine the amount remaining for expenditure upon games. Exam question 2 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Exam question 2 · Gift cards and birthday money: making it last

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Whereas a sum of twenty pounds is received and one half thereof is reserved for saving, determine the amount remaining for expenditure upon games.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, amount · **What happens:** receive, reserve, determine, remain, sum · **To what, where:** sum, one half, amount, games, twenty pounds

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 415 «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:e2:1
# text = Whereas a sum of twenty pounds is received and one half thereof is reserved for saving, determine the amount remaining for expenditure upon games.
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	reserved	reserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
18	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present · passive |  | a sum of twenty pounds |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reserve** | present · passive |  | one half |  |  |  | for saving | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for saving=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the amount |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Topic |
| 4 | **remain** | gerund | the amount *not said here* |  |  | games |  | for expenditure | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon game=Location |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | twenty pounds |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ten pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:e2:o1:1
# text = Ten pounds
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	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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Fifteen pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:e2:o2:1
# text = Fifteen pounds
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	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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Five pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:e2:o3:1
# text = Five pounds
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	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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Twenty pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money:e2:o4:1
# text = Twenty pounds
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	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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