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title: Ahmed saves all of his £3 a week. After how many weeks can he afford… — Comfortable families: enough, but not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ahmed saves all of his £3 a week. After how many weeks can he afford a £15 football? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 3 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything

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Ahmed saves all of his £3 a week. After how many weeks can he afford a £15 football?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ahmed · **What happens:** save, afford · **To what, where:** all, £ football

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ahmed saves all of his £3 a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t3:1
# text = Ahmed saves all of his £3 a week.
1	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	3	3	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	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | present | Ahmed | all |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |

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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:* After how many weeks can he afford a £15 football?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t3:2
# text = After how many weeks can he afford a £15 football?
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afford** | can | Ahmed | a £ football |  |  | week |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t3:o1:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t3:o2:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t3:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t3:o4:1
# text = 15
1	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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