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title: State the number of pence which together constitute one pound sterli… — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dol… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of pence which together constitute one pound sterling. Exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Exam question 1 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

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State the number of pence which together constitute one pound sterling.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, constitute · **To what, where:** number, pence

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e1:1
# text = State the number of pence which together constitute one pound sterling.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pence	pence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	constitute	constitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sterling	sterling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of pence |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **constitute** | present |  | pence |  |  |  | together *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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One hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e1:o1:1
# text = One hundred
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e1:o2:1
# text = Fifty
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e1:o3:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:e1:o4:1
# text = One thousand
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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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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