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title: Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver." Wha… — In-game currency: coins and gems are r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver." What does 1,500 gems really cost? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 16 «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 11 · ★ · In-game currency: coins and gems are real money

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Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver." What does 1,500 gems really cost?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** be, cost

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 16 «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» 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/16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money:t11:1
# text = Lily's bro: "500 gems for £4.99, so 1,500 gems is like a fiver."
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	4.99	4.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Lily's bro |  |  |  |  | like a fiver | tree rules |

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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 does 1,500 gems really cost?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money:t11:2
# text = What does 1,500 gems really cost?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cost	cost	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About £5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money:t11:o1:1
# text = About £5
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About £50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money:t11:o2:1
# text = About £50
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	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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About £15 (£14.97)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money:t11:o3:1
# text = About £15 (£14.97)
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	14.97	14.97	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About £1.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money:t11:o4:1
# text = About £1.50
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	1.50	1.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	2	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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