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description: Ascertain the residual sum available to a household which has allocated eighty pounds to its weekly provisions, whereas the items enumerated upon its list amount to seventy-six pounds. Exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Exam question 1 · The weekly shop and a family budget

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Ascertain the residual sum available to a household which has allocated eighty pounds to its weekly provisions, whereas the items enumerated upon its list amount to seventy-six pounds.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, items, household · **What happens:** ascertain, allocate, enumerate, provide, amount · **To what, where:** residual sum, household, six pounds

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the residual sum available to a household which has allocated eighty pounds to its weekly provisions, whereas the items enumerated upon its list amount to seventy-six pounds.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	residual	residual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	available	available	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	allocated	allocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 residual sum |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic |
| 2 | **allocate** | present · perfect · passive |  | a household |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal pound=Theme |
| 3 | **enumerate** | past | the items | six pounds |  |  |  | upon household's list amount | tree rules |
| 4 | **provide** |  | household |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **amount** |  | household |  |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession 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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£156

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:e1:o1:1
# text = £156
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	156	156	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}

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£14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:e1:o2:1
# text = £14
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	14	14	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:e1:o3:1
# text = £4
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	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 {#o4}

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£6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:e1:o4:1
# text = £6
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	6	6	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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