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title: Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad." Finn spent £3 + £7. How… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad." Finn spent £3 + £7. How much would he have saved by buying the £7 car first? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Regret, silly buys and peer pressure

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Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad." Finn spent £3 + £7. How much would he have saved by buying the £7 car first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grandad, Finn · **What happens:** buy, spend, save · **To what, where:** cheap, much, £ car

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:1
# text = Finn's grandad: "buy cheap, buy twice, lad."
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | Finn's grandad | cheap |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheap=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | Finn's grandad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lad *vocative*; twice *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Finn spent £3 + £7.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:2
# text = Finn spent £3 + £7.
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	6	cc	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | Finn |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |

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*Sentence 3:* How much would he have saved by buying the £7 car first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:3
# text = How much would he have saved by buying the £7 car first?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | would · perfect · passive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  | the £ car |  |  |  | first *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:o1:1
# text = £7
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7	7	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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£3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:o2:1
# text = £3
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	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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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:o3:1
# text = £4
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	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 {#o4}

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£10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t5:o4:1
# 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.

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