--- title: A sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at t… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics description: A sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at twenty pence per item. State the greatest number of items which may be purchased. Exam question 3 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 t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Prices and change at the till](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Prices and change at the till A sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at twenty pence per item. State the greatest number of items which may be purchased. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** hold, price, sum, purchase · **To what, where:** sum, confectionery, twenty pence, five pence, items This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at twenty pence per item. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e3:1 # text = A sum of seventy-five pence is held and confectionery is priced at twenty pence per item. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 pence pence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 confectionery confectionery NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 priced price VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 pence pence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 per per ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present · passive | | a sum of five pence | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **price** | present · passive | | confectionery | | twenty pence per item | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at pence=Value | | 3 | **sum** | | | five pence | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:* State the greatest number of items which may be purchased. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e3:2 # text = State the greatest number of items which may be purchased. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 items item NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 purchased purchase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **purchase** | may · passive | | items | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e3:o1:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e3:o2:1 # text = Five 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e3:o3:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:e3:o4:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 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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