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title: It is given that a purchase of four pounds ninety-nine pence is effe… — Mum's card, in-app buys and subscripti… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that a purchase of four pounds ninety-nine pence is effected six times. Compute the aggregate expenditure. Exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Exam question 2 · Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew

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It is given that a purchase of four pounds ninety-nine pence is effected six times. Compute the aggregate expenditure.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, affect, compute · **To what, where:** It, purchase, aggregate expenditure

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 18 «Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew» 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/18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a purchase of four pounds ninety-nine pence is effected six times.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew:e2:1
# text = It is given that a purchase of four pounds ninety-nine pence is effected six times.
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	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pence	pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	orphan	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	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 | **affect** | present · passive |  | a purchase and four pounds |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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 aggregate expenditure.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew:e2:2
# text = Compute the aggregate expenditure.
1	Compute	compute	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compute** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate expenditure |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Twenty-four pounds ninety-five pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew:e2:o1:1
# text = Twenty-four pounds ninety-five pence
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Twenty-nine pounds ninety-nine pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew:e2:o2:1
# text = Twenty-nine pounds ninety-nine pence
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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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:18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew: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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Twenty-nine pounds ninety-four pence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:18-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew:e2:o4:1
# text = Twenty-nine pounds ninety-four pence
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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