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Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [The electric meter, the food bank and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it» Leon found £5. Dad says, «Spend a pound on sweets.» How much goes back to the family money? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leon, Dad, much · **What happens:** find, say, spend, go back · **To what, where:** pound, sweets · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Leon found £5. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:1 # text = Leon found £5. 1 Leon Leon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Leon | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Topic | 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. *Sentence 2:* Dad says, «Spend a pound on sweets.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:2 # text = Dad says, «Spend a pound on sweets.» 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Spend spend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **spend** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a pound | | | | on sweets *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pound=Asset on sweet=Goal | *Sentence 3:* How much goes back to the family money? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:3 # text = How much goes back to the family money? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | present | much | | | | | to the family money *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to money=Result | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:o1:1 # text = £1 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:o2:1 # text = £6 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:o3:1 # text = £5 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} £4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it:t9:o4:1 # text = £4 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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