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description: It is given that an article valued at £10 is subject to an import tariff of ten per cent. Determine the cost of importing the article. Exam question 1 of lesson 37 «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 1 · Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries

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It is given that an article valued at £10 is subject to an import tariff of ten per cent. Determine the cost of importing the article.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** article, you, cost · **What happens:** give, value, be, tariff, determine, import · **To what, where:** It, ten per cent, cost, article

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 37 «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» 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/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that an article valued at £10 is subject to an import tariff of ten per cent.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:e1:1
# text = It is given that an article valued at £10 is subject to an import tariff of ten per cent.
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	import	import	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tariff	tariff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	per	per	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cent	cent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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 | **value** | past | a article |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | a article *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a import tariff of ten per cent; subject *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tariff** |  |  | ten per cent |  |  |  |  | nom tariff «possession 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 cost of importing the article.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:e1:2
# text = Determine the cost of importing the article.
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	importing	import	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 | **import** | gerund | the cost *not said here* | the article |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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£11

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:e1:o1:1
# text = £11
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	11	11	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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£10.10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:e1:o2:1
# text = £10.10
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	10.10	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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£20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:e1: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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£1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:e1:o4:1
# text = £1
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1	1	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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