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description: It is given that forty cakes, donated without charge, are sold at fifty pence each. Determine the profit realised. Exam question 1 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 1 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

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It is given that forty cakes, donated without charge, are sold at fifty pence each. Determine the profit realised.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, profit · **What happens:** give, donate, sell, determine, realise · **To what, where:** It, forty cakes, fifty pence

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that forty cakes, donated without charge, are sold at fifty pence each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e1:1
# text = It is given that forty cakes, donated without charge, are sold at fifty pence each.
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	_	13	mark	_	_
5	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	donated	donate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | **donate** | participle |  | forty cakes *not said here* |  |  |  | without charge | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | present · passive |  | forty cakes |  | fifty pence |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at pence=Asset |

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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 profit realised.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e1:2
# text = Determine the profit realised.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	realised	realise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **realise** | past | the profit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e1:o1:1
# text = £2
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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£20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e1:o2:1
# text = £20
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	20	20	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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£40

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e1:o3:1
# text = £40
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	40	40	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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£90

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e1:o4:1
# text = £90
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	90	90	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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