--- title: Ascertain the income tax payable at a rate of one pound in every fiv… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the income tax payable at a rate of one pound in every five upon earnings of £1,000 in excess of the tax-free allowance. Exam question 2 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 an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Taxes and the government's budget](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Taxes and the government's budget Ascertain the income tax payable at a rate of one pound in every five upon earnings of £1,000 in excess of the tax-free allowance. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** income tax payable, rate This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the income tax payable at a rate of one pound in every five upon earnings of £1,000 in excess of the tax-free allowance. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 income income NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 payable payable NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 obl _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 earnings earning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 £ £ SYM $ _ 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 excess excess NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 allowance allowance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the income tax payable | | a rate of one pound | | in every five; upon earnings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payable=Topic | 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} £100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e2:o1:1 # text = £100 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} £200 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e2:o2:1 # text = £200 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e2:o3:1 # text = £20 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £800 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:e2:o4:1 # text = £800 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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