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description: A purchaser tenders a five-pound note in respect of a periodical priced at two pounds sixty pence. Ascertain the change due. Exam question 1 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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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# Exam question 1 · Prices and change at the till

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A purchaser tenders a five-pound note in respect of a periodical priced at two pounds sixty pence. Ascertain the change due.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** purchaser, you · **What happens:** tender, price, respect, ascertain · **To what, where:** pound note, respect, periodical, two pounds, change

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A purchaser tenders a five-pound note in respect of a periodical priced at two pounds sixty pence.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e1:1
# text = A purchaser tenders a five-pound note in respect of a periodical priced at two pounds sixty pence.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	purchaser	purchaser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tenders	tender	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	periodical	periodical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	priced	price	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tender** | present | a purchaser | a pound note |  | respect of a periodical |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **price** | participle |  | a periodical *not said here* |  | two pounds and sixty pence |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at pound=Value |
| 3 | **respect** |  |  | a periodical |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:* Ascertain the change due.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e1:2
# text = Ascertain the change due.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the change |  |  |  | due *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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Two pounds forty pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e1:o1:1
# text = Two pounds forty pence
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One pound forty pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e1:o2:1
# text = One pound forty pence
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	pence	pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two pounds sixty pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e1:o3:1
# text = Two pounds sixty pence
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three pounds forty pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e1:o4:1
# text = Three pounds forty pence
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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