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title: Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiv… — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiver and a £1 coin. What's missing? Test 5 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · Prices and change at the till

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Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiver and a £1 coin. What's missing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, man · **What happens:** hand, give, be · **To what, where:** tenner, fiver, Jake

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This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiver and a £1 coin.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t5:1
# text = Jake hands over a tenner for a £3.50 toy and the man gives him a fiver and a £1 coin.
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hands	hand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tenner	tenner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	3.50	3.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
10	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | present | Jake |  |  | a tenner |  | for a £ toy | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | the man | a fiver and a £ coin | Jake |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient fiver=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:* What's missing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t5:2
# text = What's missing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£1, the change should be £7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t5:o1:1
# text = £1, the change should be £7
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | should | the change | £ 7 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£1.50, the change should be £7.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t5:o2:1
# text = £1.50, the change should be £7.50
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	1	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	7.50	7.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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50p, the change should be £6.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t5:o3:1
# text = 50p, the change should be £6.50
1	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	6.50	6.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, £6 is right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing, £6 is right
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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