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description: Ascertain the aggregate monthly expenditure of a household whose obligations are as follows: rent £650, energy £120, water £40, telephone £30 and council tax £110. Exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Exam question 1 · Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax

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Ascertain the aggregate monthly expenditure of a household whose obligations are as follows: rent £650, energy £120, water £40, telephone £30 and council tax £110.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, obligations, household · **What happens:** ascertain, be, expend, obligate · **To what, where:** aggregate monthly expenditure, household

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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/21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the aggregate monthly expenditure of a household whose obligations are as follows: rent £650, energy £120, water £40, telephone £30 and council tax £110.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	obligations	obligation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	650	650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
28	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	tax	tax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
33	£	£	SYM	$	_	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	110	110	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate monthly expenditure of a household and a household and obligations's obligations |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | a household and a household and obligations's obligations's obligations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | follow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **expend** |  |  | a household and a household and a household's obligations's obligations |  |  |  |  | nom expenditure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **obligate** |  | a household and a household and obligations's obligations |  |  |  |  |  | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£1,050

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:e1:o1:1
# text = £1,050
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1,050	1,050	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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£850

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:e1:o2:1
# text = £850
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	850	850	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£910

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:e1:o3:1
# text = £910
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	910	910	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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£950

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:e1:o4:1
# text = £950
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	950	950	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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**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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