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title: Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big super… — Unit prices and sales that are not rea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big supermarket. How much does he save at the supermarket? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales

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Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big supermarket. How much does he save at the supermarket?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Aidan · **What happens:** need, save · **To what, where:** 6 cans, much, supermarket

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big supermarket.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t8:1
# text = Aidan needs 6 cans: £1 each at the corner shop, 60p at the big supermarket.
1	Aidan	Aidan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Aidan | 6 cans and 60 p at the big supermarket |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot can=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:* How much does he save at the supermarket?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t8:2
# text = How much does he save at the supermarket?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | present · do-support | Aidan | much |  | the supermarket |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent much=Theme at supermarket=Asset |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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40p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t8:o1:1
# text = 40p
1	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£6.00

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t8:o2:1
# text = £6.00
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	6.00	6.00	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£3.60

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t8:o3:1
# text = £3.60
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3.60	3.60	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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£2.40

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales:t8:o4:1
# text = £2.40
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2.40	2.40	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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**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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