--- title: Ella's mum earns £1,000 above the tax-free amount — sorry, £2,000. A… — Taxes and the government's budget · tree and pragmatics description: Ella's mum earns £1,000 above the tax-free amount — sorry, £2,000. At £1 in every £5, how much tax? 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At £1 in every £5, how much tax? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** earn · **To what, where:** free amount This is test 7 of lesson 36 «Taxes and the government's budget» 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/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella's mum earns £1,000 above the tax-free amount — sorry, £2,000. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t7:1 # text = Ella's mum earns £1,000 above the tax-free amount — sorry, £2,000. 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 earns earn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 £ £ SYM $ _ 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 7 above above ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sorry sorry INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 £ £ SYM $ _ 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** | present | Ella's mum | | | the free amount | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* At £1 in every £5, how much tax? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t7:2 # text = At £1 in every £5, how much tax? 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 10 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t7:o1:1 # 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} £400 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t7:o2:1 # text = £400 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £2,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t7:o3:1 # text = £2,000 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £200 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget:t7:o4:1 # 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. **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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