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title: Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either." Is £8 a week a big saving over a whole year? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 7 · ★ · The weekly shop and a family budget

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Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either." Is £8 a week a big saving over a whole year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad, ai · **What happens:** say, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 22 «The weekly shop and a family budget» 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/22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t7:1
# text = Ollie's dad says, "£8 a week ain't nothing, but it's not much either."
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
20	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ollie's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | ai |  |  |  |  | either, much *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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is £8 a week a big saving over a whole year?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t7:2
# text = Is £8 a week a big saving over a whole year?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	saving	saving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, it's only £80 over a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t7:o1:1
# text = No, it's only £80 over a year
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it's only £52 over a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t7:o2:1
# text = No, it's only £52 over a year
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it's £8,000 over a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t7:o3:1
# text = Yes, it's £8,000 over a year
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	8,000	8,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it's £416 over 52 weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, it's £416 over 52 weeks
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	416	416	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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