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description: It is given that an article is priced at £20 and that a discount of ten per cent is applied. Determine the price payable. Exam question 1 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 1 · Adverts and how they work on you

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It is given that an article is priced at £20 and that a discount of ten per cent is applied. Determine the price payable.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, price, apply, discount, determine · **To what, where:** It, article, discount, ten per cent, price payable

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 33 «Adverts and how they work on you» 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/33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that an article is priced at £20 and that a discount of ten per cent is applied.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e1:1
# text = It is given that an article is priced at £20 and that a discount of ten per cent is applied.
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	priced	price	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	discount	discount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | **price** | present · passive |  | a article |  |  |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at £=Value |
| 3 | **apply** | present · passive |  | a discount of ten per cent |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **discount** |  |  | ten per cent |  |  |  |  | nom discount «act 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the price payable.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e1:2
# text = Determine the price payable.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	payable	payable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	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* | the price payable |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payable=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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£18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e1:o1:1
# text = £18
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	18	18	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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£10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e1:o2:1
# text = £10
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	10	10	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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£2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e1:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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£19

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:33-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you:e1:o4:1
# text = £19
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	19	19	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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