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title: Ascertain the reduction in value of a holding of one thousand shares… — Crypto and the stock market, simply · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the reduction in value of a holding of one thousand shares consequent upon a fall of thirty pence in the price of each. Exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Crypto and the stock market, simply» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 2 · Crypto and the stock market, simply

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Ascertain the reduction in value of a holding of one thousand shares consequent upon a fall of thirty pence in the price of each.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, one thousand · **What happens:** ascertain, hold, share, value · **To what, where:** reduction, value, holding consequent

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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/38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the reduction in value of a holding of one thousand shares consequent upon a fall of thirty pence in the price of each.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reduction	reduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	compound	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	consequent	consequent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the reduction |  | value of a holding consequent |  | upon a fall of thirty pence; in the price of each | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Topic |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **share** | present | one thousand |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **value** |  |  | a holding consequent |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:e2:o1:1
# text = £30
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	30	30	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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£3,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:e2:o2:1
# text = £3,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3,000	3000	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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£3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:e2:o3:1
# text = £3
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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£300

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:e2:o4:1
# text = £300
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	300	300	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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