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description: Lily-Rose: «Mum wanted half in savings and I only saved £20». How much less than half did she save? Test 4 · ★ 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;
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# Test 4 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything

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Lily-Rose: «Mum wanted half in savings and I only saved £20». How much less than half did she save?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, I · **What happens:** want, save · **To what, where:** half, savings

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily-Rose: «Mum wanted half in savings and I only saved £20».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t4:1
# text = Lily-Rose: «Mum wanted half in savings and I only saved £20».
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | past | Mum | half |  | savings |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot half=Theme |
| 2 | **save** *in a quote* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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:* How much less than half did she save?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t4:2
# text = How much less than half did she save?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past · do-support | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t4:o1:1
# text = £20
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t4:o2:1
# text = £10
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£25

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t4:o3:1
# text = £25
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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£5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything:t4:o4:1
# text = £5
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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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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