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title: Jake buys a share for £10. It drops to £8 — wait, £7. How much is he… — Crypto and the stock market, simply · tree and pragmatics
description: Jake buys a share for £10. It drops to £8 — wait, £7. How much is he down? Test 5 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Crypto and the stock market, simply

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Jake buys a share for £10. It drops to £8 — wait, £7. How much is he down?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jake, share · **What happens:** buy, drop, wait, be · **To what, where:** share, Jake

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 38 «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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/38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Jake buys a share for £10.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5:1
# text = Jake buys a share for £10.
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	buys	buy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | present | Jake | a share |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent share=Theme for £=Beneficiary |

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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:* It drops to £8 — wait, £7.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5:2
# text = It drops to £8 — wait, £7.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | share |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to £=Trajectory |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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*Sentence 3:* How much is he down?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5:3
# text = How much is he down?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | Jake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£17

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5:o1:1
# text = £17
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	17	17	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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£7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5:o2:1
# text = £7
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	7	7	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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£3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5: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 {#o4}

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£2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:38-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply:t5:o4:1
# text = £2
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	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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