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title: Ella's grandad says, "Little and often, that's the way." He gives £5… — Lending, sharing, charity and tipping · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella's grandad says, "Little and often, that's the way." He gives £5 a month for 3 years. How much? Test 11 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's choice was
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# Test 11 · Lending, sharing, charity and tipping

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Ella's grandad says, "Little and often, that's the way." He gives £5 a month for 3 years. How much?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandad, that · **What happens:** say, be, give · **To what, where:** Little, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 39 «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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/39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ella's grandad says, "Little and often, that's the way."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:1
# text = Ella's grandad says, "Little and often, that's the way."
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ella's grandad | Little |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:* He gives £5 a month for 3 years.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:2
# text = He gives £5 a month for 3 years.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | grandad |  |  |  | month; year |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* How much?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:3
# text = How much?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

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

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£180

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:o1:1
# text = £180
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	180	180	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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£60

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:o2:1
# text = £60
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	60	60	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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£15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:o3:1
# text = £15
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	15	15	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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£150

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:39-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping:t11:o4:1
# text = £150
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	150	150	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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