--- title: It is given that an inexpensive article costing three pounds fails a… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that an inexpensive article costing three pounds fails and is replaced by a durable article costing seven pounds. Ascertain the total expenditure incurred. 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Ascertain the total expenditure incurred. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** inexpensive article, durable article, you · **What happens:** give, cost, fail, replace, ascertain, incur · **To what, where:** It, three pounds, seven pounds, total expenditure This is exam question 4 of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/#e4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that an inexpensive article costing three pounds fails and is replaced by a durable article costing seven pounds. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:e4:1 # text = It is given that an inexpensive article costing three pounds fails and is replaced by a durable article costing seven pounds. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 inexpensive inexpensive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 costing cost VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 durable durable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 costing cost VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **cost** | gerund | a inexpensive article *not said here* | three pounds | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value | | 3 | **fail** | present | a inexpensive article | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **replace** | present · passive | a durable article | | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cost** | gerund | a durable article *not said here* | seven pounds | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value | 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:* Ascertain the total expenditure incurred. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:e4:2 # text = Ascertain the total expenditure incurred. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 expenditure expenditure NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 incurred incur VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the total expenditure | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Topic | | 2 | **incur** | participle | | the total expenditure *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Four pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:e4:o1:1 # text = Four pounds 1 Four four 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. ### Option 2 {#o2} Seven pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:e4:o2:1 # text = Seven pounds 1 Seven seven 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. ### Option 3 {#o3} Three pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:e4:o3:1 # text = Three pounds 1 Three three 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. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Ten pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:e4:o4:1 # text = Ten pounds 1 Ten ten 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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