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title: Ben's app shows: shop £2.50, game £4.99 — wait, it was £3.99 — shop… — A bank account and a debit card · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben's app shows: shop £2.50, game £4.99 — wait, it was £3.99 — shop £1.20. How much did he spend? Test 8 of lesson 26 «A bank account and a debit card» 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 right.
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# Test 8 · A bank account and a debit card

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Ben's app shows: shop £2.50, game £4.99 — wait, it was £3.99 — shop £1.20. How much did he spend?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** app, Ben · **What happens:** show, wait, spend · **To what, where:** shop, much

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This is test 8 of lesson 26 «A bank account and a debit card» 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/26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben's app shows: shop £2.50, game £4.99 — wait, it was £3.99 — shop £1.20.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t8:1
# text = Ben's app shows: shop £2.50, game £4.99 — wait, it was £3.99 — shop £1.20.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	2.50	2.50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	4.99	4.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	3.99	3.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1.20	1.20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Ben's app | shop and game |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shop=Recipient |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  | shop |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 much did he spend?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t8:2
# text = How much did he spend?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · do-support | Ben | much |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset |

## The options {#options}

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

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£7.69

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t8:o1:1
# text = £7.69
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7.69	7.69	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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£7.79

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t8:o2:1
# text = £7.79
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7.79	7.79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£8.69

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t8:o3:1
# text = £8.69
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8.69	8.69	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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£6.69

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t8:o4:1
# text = £6.69
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	6.69	6.69	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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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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