--- title: Ascertain the aggregate sum raised by ten classes, each comprising t… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the aggregate sum raised by ten classes, each comprising thirty pupils contributing £1 apiece. Exam question 2 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/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/) / [Lending, sharing, charity and tipping](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping Ascertain the aggregate sum raised by ten classes, each comprising thirty pupils contributing £1 apiece. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, each, thirty pupils · **What happens:** ascertain, raise, comprise, contribute · **To what, where:** aggregate sum, thirty pupils, £ apiece This is exam question 2 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the aggregate sum raised by ten classes, each comprising thirty pupils contributing £1 apiece. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 classes class NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ _ 11 comprising comprise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ _ 12 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 contributing contribute VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 apiece apiece NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate sum | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Topic | | 2 | **raise** | participle | | the aggregate sum *not said here* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **comprise** | gerund | each | thirty pupils | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pupil=Pivot | | 4 | **contribute** | gerund | thirty pupils *not said here* | £ apiece | | | | | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent apiece=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} £300 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:e2:o1:1 # text = £300 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 300 300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:e2:o2:1 # text = £30 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £40 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:e2:o3:1 # text = £40 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £3,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:e2:o4:1 # text = £3,000 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 3,000 3000 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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