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title: It is given that a household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,20… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that a household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,200 by means of monthly deposits of £100. Determine the number of months required. Exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 1 · Saving for holidays and big things

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It is given that a household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,200 by means of monthly deposits of £100. Determine the number of months required.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** household, you · **What happens:** give, propose, accumulate, mean, determine, require · **To what, where:** It, sum, number, months · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» 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/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,200 by means of monthly deposits of £100.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e1:1
# text = It is given that a household proposes to accumulate the sum of £1,200 by means of monthly deposits of £100.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	proposes	propose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	accumulate	accumulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	monthly	monthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **propose** | present | a household |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accumulate** | to-infinitive |  | the sum |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of monthly deposits | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Determine the number of months required.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e1:2
# text = Determine the number of months required.
1	Determine	determine	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | 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 |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e1:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e1:o2:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e1:o3:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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120

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e1:o4:1
# text = 120
1	120	120	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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