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title: It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen… — Taking without paying: the consequences · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop. Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days. Exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 2 · Taking without paying: the consequences

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It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop. Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** that, sixty pence · **What happens:** give, article, price, steal, incur · **To what, where:** It, five articles, sixty pence, each, shop, loss

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 15 «Taking without paying: the consequences» 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/15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:e2:1
# text = It is given that five articles priced at sixty pence each are stolen daily from a shop.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	priced	price	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **article** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **price** | participle |  | five articles *not said here* |  | sixty pence |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at pence=Value |
| 4 | **steal** | present · passive | sixty pence *not said here* | each |  | a shop |  | daily *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shop=Source |

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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:* Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:e2:2
# text = Compute the loss incurred over a period of thirty days.
1	Compute	compute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	incurred	incur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incur** | participle |  | the loss *not said here* |  | a period of thirty days |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:e2:o1:1
# text = Three pounds
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eighteen pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:e2:o2:1
# text = Eighteen pounds
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thirty pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:e2:o3:1
# text = Thirty pounds
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Ninety pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:15-taking-without-paying-the-consequences:e2:o4:1
# text = Ninety pounds
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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