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description: A lorry uses 100 litres and fuel rises 20p a litre. The firm makes 10 such trips a week. How much more a week? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

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A lorry uses 100 litres and fuel rises 20p a litre. The firm makes 10 such trips a week. How much more a week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lorry, fuel, firm · **What happens:** use, rise, make · **To what, where:** 100 litres, 20 p, 10 such trips

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A lorry uses 100 litres and fuel rises 20p a litre.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:1
# text = A lorry uses 100 litres and fuel rises 20p a litre.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lorry	lorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	litre	litre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | a lorry | 100 litres |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | present | fuel | 20 p |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 firm makes 10 such trips a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:2
# text = The firm makes 10 such trips a week.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the firm | 10 such trips  a week |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |

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*Sentence 3:* How much more a week?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:3
# text = How much more a week?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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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£2,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:o1:1
# text = £2,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2,000	2000	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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£200

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:o2:1
# text = £200
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	200	200	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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£20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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£120

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t12:o4:1
# text = £120
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	120	120	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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