--- title: Given that a parent undertakes to match a child's savings towards an… — Comfortable families: enough, but not… · tree and pragmatics description: Given that a parent undertakes to match a child's savings towards an item costing two hundred pounds, ascertain the sum the child must save. Exam question 2 of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/e2/) [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/) / [Comfortable families: enough, but not…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything Given that a parent undertakes to match a child's savings towards an item costing two hundred pounds, ascertain the sum the child must save. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** parent, item, child · **What happens:** give, undertake, match, cost, ascertain, save · **To what, where:** savings, hundred pounds, sum This is exam question 2 of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:e2:1 # text = Given that a parent undertakes to match a child's savings towards an item costing two hundred pounds, ascertain the sum the child must save. 1 Given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 mark _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 undertakes undertake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 obj _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 costing cost VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 ascertain ascertain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | participle | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **undertake** | present | a parent | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **match** | to-infinitive | a parent *not said here* | a child's savings | | | | towards a item | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent savings=Patient | | 4 | **cost** | gerund | a item *not said here* | hundred pounds | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value | | 5 | **ascertain** | present | | the sum | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic | | 6 | **save** | must | the child | the sum *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | | 7 | **save** | | a child | | | | | | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 {#o1} Two hundred pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:e2:o1:1 # text = Two hundred pounds 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} One hundred pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:e2:o2:1 # text = One hundred pounds 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Four hundred pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:e2:o3:1 # text = Four hundred pounds 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Fifty pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:e2:o4:1 # text = Fifty pounds 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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