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title: It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum. Determine the cost of educating a class of thirty pupils. Exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 1 · Taxes and the government's budget

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It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum. Determine the cost of educating a class of thirty pupils.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cost, you · **What happens:** give, educate, determine · **To what, where:** It, one pupil, cost, class

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» 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/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e1:1
# text = It is given that the cost of educating one pupil is £7,000 per annum.
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	_	12	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	educating	educate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	7,000	7000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
14	per	per	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	annum	annum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **educate** *speech: other* | gerund | the cost *not said here* |  | one pupil |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pupil=Recipient |

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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 cost of educating a class of thirty pupils.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e1:2
# text = Determine the cost of educating a class of thirty pupils.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	educating	educate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 cost |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic |
| 2 | **educate** *speech: other* | gerund | the cost *not said here* | a class of thirty pupils |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£21,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e1:o1:1
# text = £21,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	21,000	21000	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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£210,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e1:o2:1
# text = £210,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	210,000	210,000	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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£2,100,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e1:o3:1
# text = £2,100,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2,100,000	2,100,000	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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£7,030

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e1:o4:1
# text = £7,030
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7,030	7,030	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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