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title: Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750." Ho… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750." How much is that a year? Test 12 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 12 · Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax

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Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750." How much is that a year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mum, wait · **What happens:** say, go up, be · **To what, where:** £ 750, year · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 of lesson 21 «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» 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/21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:t12:1
# text = Mum says, "Rent's £700 a month — no wait, it went up, it's £750."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Rent	Rent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	750	750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go up** *in a quote* | past | wait |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | wait | £ 750 |  |  |  |  | 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:* How much is that a year?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:t12:2
# text = How much is that a year?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **is a** | present |  | a year |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£8,400

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:t12:o1:1
# text = £8,400
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8,400	8,400	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 -->
£8,750

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:t12:o2:1
# text = £8,750
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8,750	8,750	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 -->
£7,500

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:t12:o3:1
# text = £7,500
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7,500	7,500	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£9,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:21-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax:t12:o4:1
# text = £9,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	9,000	9,000	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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