--- title: Ascertain the aggregate of the savings objectives enumerated as foll… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the aggregate of the savings objectives enumerated as follows: holiday £600, boiler £1,500 and Christmas £400. Exam question 2 of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/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/) / [Saving for holidays and big things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Saving for holidays and big things Ascertain the aggregate of the savings objectives enumerated as follows: holiday £600, boiler £1,500 and Christmas £400. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, enumerate, follow · **To what, where:** aggregate, savings objectives This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the aggregate of the savings objectives enumerated as follows: holiday £600, boiler £1,500 and Christmas £400. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 savings savings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 7 compound _ _ 7 objectives objective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 8 enumerated enumerate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 13 £ £ SYM $ _ 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 boiler boiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 £ £ SYM $ _ 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 £ £ SYM $ _ 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate of the savings objectives | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aggregate=Topic | | 2 | **enumerate** | participle | | the savings objectives *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | present | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} £2,400 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e2:o1:1 # text = £2,400 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 2,400 2,400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £2,100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e2:o2:1 # text = £2,100 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 2,100 2,100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £1,900 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e2:o3:1 # text = £1,900 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1,900 1,900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} £2,500 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:e2:o4:1 # text = £2,500 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 2,500 2500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` 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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