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description: Sami's mum got second-hand shoes for £10 instead of £40 — no wait, they were £12 — instead of £40. How much did she save? Test 10 of lesson 23 «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 10 · When money is tight: "we can't afford it"

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Sami's mum got second-hand shoes for £10 instead of £40 — no wait, they were £12 — instead of £40. How much did she save?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** get, save · **To what, where:** hand shoes, much

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This is test 10 of lesson 23 «When money is tight: "we can't afford it"» 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/23-when-money-is-tight/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Sami's mum got second-hand shoes for £10 instead of £40 — no wait, they were £12 — instead of £40.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:23-when-money-is-tight:t10:1
# text = Sami's mum got second-hand shoes for £10 instead of £40 — no wait, they were £12 — instead of £40.
1	Sami	Sami	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	£	£	SYM	$	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Sami's mum | hand shoes |  |  |  | no wait *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme for £=Source |

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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 did she save?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:23-when-money-is-tight:t10:2
# text = How much did she save?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past · do-support | mum | much |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:23-when-money-is-tight:t10:o1:1
# text = £30
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	30	30	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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£28

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:23-when-money-is-tight:t10:o2:1
# text = £28
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	28	28	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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£52

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:23-when-money-is-tight:t10:o3:1
# text = £52
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	52	52	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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£12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:23-when-money-is-tight:t10:o4:1
# text = £12
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	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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