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title: Mum goes, "Right, we're at £43 — wait, no, I forgot the milk, £44."… — The weekly shop and a family budget · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum goes, "Right, we're at £43 — wait, no, I forgot the milk, £44." Her budget is £50. How much is left? Test 8 · ★ 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; Mova's choi
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# Test 8 · ★ · The weekly shop and a family budget

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Mum goes, "Right, we're at £43 — wait, no, I forgot the milk, £44." Her budget is £50. How much is left?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mum, I · **What happens:** go, wait, forget, budget, leave · **To what, where:** milk, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum goes, "Right, we're at £43 — wait, no, I forgot the milk, £44."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:1
# text = Mum goes, "Right, we're at £43 — wait, no, I forgot the milk, £44."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	43	43	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** *in a quote* | past | I | the milk |  |  |  |  | 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:* Her budget is £50.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:2
# text = Her budget is £50.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	budget	budget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **budget** |  | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | nom budget «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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*Sentence 3:* How much is left?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:3
# text = How much is left?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · passive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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£6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:o2:1
# text = £7
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7	7	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}

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£94

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:o3:1
# text = £94
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	94	94	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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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:22-the-weekly-shop-and-a-family-budget:t8:o4:1
# 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.

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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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