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# Test 9 · Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout

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Ellie's mum asks for a price match on a £25 kettle. The other shop sells it for £5 less. What does she pay if they agree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, other shop, shop, they · **What happens:** ask, sell, pay, agree · **To what, where:** match

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This is test 9 of lesson 14 «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» 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/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ellie's mum asks for a price match on a £25 kettle.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:1
# text = Ellie's mum asks for a price match on a £25 kettle.
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Ellie's mum |  |  |  |  | for a price match on a £ kettle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* The other shop sells it for £5 less.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:2
# text = The other shop sells it for £5 less.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | the other shop | match |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* What does she pay if they agree?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:3
# text = What does she pay if they agree?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present · do-support | shop |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£25

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:o1:1
# text = £25
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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£20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:o2:1
# text = £20
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:o3:1
# text = £30
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	30	30	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 {#o4}

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£15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t9:o4:1
# text = £15
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	15	15	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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