--- title: Ascertain the number of months required to discharge a debt of £1,20… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of months required to discharge a debt of £1,200 by means of monthly instalments of £50. Exam question 2 of lesson 24 «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Debt, loans, credit cards and interest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Debt, loans, credit cards and interest Ascertain the number of months required to discharge a debt of £1,200 by means of monthly instalments of £50. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, require, discharge, mean · **To what, where:** number, months, debt This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» 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/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the number of months required to discharge a debt of £1,200 by means of monthly instalments of £50. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 discharge discharge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 £ £ SYM $ _ 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 1,200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 monthly monthly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 instalments instalment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 £ £ SYM $ _ 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of months | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **require** | participle | | months *not said here* | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 3 | **discharge** | to-infinitive | | a debt | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | of monthly instalments | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:e2:o1:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 24 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:e2:o2:1 # text = 24 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:e2:o3:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 60 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:e2:o4:1 # text = 60 1 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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