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title: Ascertain the unit cost of a bracelet where materials sufficient for… — The school fair, famous companies and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the unit cost of a bracelet where materials sufficient for ten bracelets are procured for the sum of £2. Exam question 2 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 2 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

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Ascertain the unit cost of a bracelet where materials sufficient for ten bracelets are procured for the sum of £2.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, procure, cost · **To what, where:** unit cost, materials, bracelet

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This is exam question 2 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/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the unit cost of a bracelet where materials sufficient for ten bracelets are procured for the sum of £2.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	unit	unit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
9	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the unit cost of a bracelet |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic |
| 2 | **procure** | present · passive |  | materials |  |  |  | for the sum | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for sum=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **cost** |  |  | a bracelet |  |  |  |  | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

## 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:e2: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 {#o2}

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10p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e2:o2:1
# text = 10p
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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20p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e2:o3:1
# text = 20p
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	p	p	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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£20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:e2:o4:1
# 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.

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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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