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title: Harper wants her cousin's £800 phone. "She's 16, you're 9." At £4 a… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics
description: Harper wants her cousin's £800 phone. "She's 16, you're 9." At £4 a week, about how many years would saving take? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 option;
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Regret, silly buys and peer pressure

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Harper wants her cousin's £800 phone. "She's 16, you're 9." At £4 a week, about how many years would saving take?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Harper, you · **What happens:** want, be, save, take · **To what, where:** £ phone, 16, 9

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Harper wants her cousin's £800 phone. "

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:1
# text = Harper wants her cousin's £800 phone. "
1	Harper	Harper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Harper | Harper's cousin's £ phone |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot phone=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:* She's 16, you're 9."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:2
# text = She's 16, you're 9."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Harper | 16 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | you | 9 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* At £4 a week, about how many years would saving take?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:3
# text = At £4 a week, about how many years would saving take?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

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

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Almost 4 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:o1:1
# text = Almost 4 years
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 6 months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:o2:1
# text = About 6 months
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 10 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:o3:1
# text = About 10 years
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About 1 year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure:t9:o4:1
# text = About 1 year
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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