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title: Your Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my accoun… — A bank account and a debit card · tree and pragmatics
description: Your Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my account, eh." (A "loonie" is a Canadian one-dollar coin.) How much does she pay in? Test 9 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 questio
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# Test 9 · A bank account and a debit card

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Your Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my account, eh." (A "loonie" is a Canadian one-dollar coin.) How much does she pay in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Canadian cousin, Mom, my, loonie · **What happens:** say, give, account, be, pay in · **To what, where:** twenty loonies, Canadian cousin, Canadian dollar coin, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my account, eh."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:1
# text = Your Canadian cousin says, "Mom gave me twenty loonies for my account, eh."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Mom	Mom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	loonies	loony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your Canadian cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Mom | twenty loonies | Your Canadian cousin *= cousin* |  |  | for my account | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient loony=Theme for account=Asset |
| 3 | **account** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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:* (A "loonie" is a Canadian one-dollar coin.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:2
# text = (A "loonie" is a Canadian one-dollar coin.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	loonie	loonie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a loonie | a Canadian dollar coin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How much does she pay in?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:3
# text = How much does she pay in?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay in** | present · do-support | Mom | much |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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2 dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:o1:1
# text = 2 dollars
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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20 dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:o2:1
# text = 20 dollars
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1 dollar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:o3:1
# text = 1 dollar
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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200 dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:26-a-bank-account-and-a-debit-card:t9:o4:1
# text = 200 dollars
1	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	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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