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title: Ali's dad pays the debt charity £50 a month — sorry, £60 — on £1,200… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics
description: Ali's dad pays the debt charity £50 a month — sorry, £60 — on £1,200. How many months now? Test 10 · ★ 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's choice was rig
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# Test 10 · ★ · Debt, loans, credit cards and interest

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Ali's dad pays the debt charity £50 a month — sorry, £60 — on £1,200. How many months now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** debt charity

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» 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/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ali's dad pays the debt charity £50 a month — sorry, £60 — on £1,200.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:t10:1
# text = Ali's dad pays the debt charity £50 a month — sorry, £60 — on £1,200.
1	Ali	Ali	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	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	charity	charity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | Ali's dad | the debt charity |  |  |  |  | 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:* How many months now?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:t10:2
# text = How many months now?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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20 months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:t10:o1:1
# text = 20 months
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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60 months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:t10:o2:1
# text = 60 months
1	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
24 months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:t10:o3:1
# text = 24 months
1	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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12 months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest:t10:o4:1
# text = 12 months
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	months	month	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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**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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