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title: The tuck shop made £8 profit. The class votes: split between the 4 k… — The school fair, famous companies and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tuck shop made £8 profit. The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids. How much each? Test 9 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 th
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# Test 9 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

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The tuck shop made £8 profit. The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids. How much each?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tuck shop, class, 4 kids · **What happens:** make, vote, split, run · **To what, where:** £ 8 profit, wait, class

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This is test 9 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» 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/32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The tuck shop made £8 profit.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:1
# text = The tuck shop made £8 profit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tuck	tuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | the tuck shop *not said here* | £ 8 profit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product |

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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:* The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:2
# text = The class votes: split between the 4 kids who ran it, or — no wait, between 8 kids.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	votes	vote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | present | the class |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **split** | infinitive | the class *not said here* | no wait |  |  |  | between the 4 kids; between 8 kids | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | past | the 4 kids | class |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |

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*Sentence 3:* How much each?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:3
# text = How much each?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:o1:1
# text = £4
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	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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£8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:o2:1
# text = £8
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:o3:1
# text = £1
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	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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£2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:32-the-school-fair-famous-companies-and-being-your-own-boss:t9:o4:1
# 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.

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