--- title: Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July." If July is £90… — Saving for holidays and big things · tree and pragmatics description: Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July." If July is £900, what does January cost? Test 8 · ★★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wro --- [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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · Saving for holidays and big things Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July." If July is £900, what does January cost? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** January · **What happens:** cost This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Saving for holidays and big things» 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/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July." ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:t8:1 # text = Ivy's mum: "Book in January, half the price of July." 1 Ivy Ivy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 price price NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 2:* If July is £900, what does January cost? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:t8:2 # text = If July is £900, what does January cost? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cost** | present · do-support | January | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £900 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:t8:o1:1 # text = £900 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £400 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:t8:o2:1 # text = £400 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} £450 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:t8:o3:1 # text = £450 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 450 450 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £1,800 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things:t8:o4:1 # text = £1,800 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1,800 1,800 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Saving for holidays and big things, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/t7/) - next →: [Saving for holidays and big things, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/t9/) - ↑ back to [Saving for holidays and big things](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/25-saving-for-holidays-and-big-things/)