--- title: Ascertain the net loss of a person who stakes £20 weekly for fifty-t… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the net loss of a person who stakes £20 weekly for fifty-two weeks and receives winnings of £200 in total. Exam question 2 of lesson 40 «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/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/) / [Gambling and honesty with change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Gambling and honesty with change Ascertain the net loss of a person who stakes £20 weekly for fifty-two weeks and receives winnings of £200 in total. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, person · **What happens:** ascertain, stake, receive · **To what, where:** net loss, winnings This is exam question 2 of lesson 40 «Gambling and honesty with change» 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/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the net loss of a person who stakes £20 weekly for fifty-two weeks and receives winnings of £200 in total. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stakes stake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 £ £ SYM $ _ 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 12 weekly weekly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 receives receive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 winnings winning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the net loss of a person | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic | | 2 | **stake** | present | a person | | | | week | weekly *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Patient | | 3 | **receive** | present | a person *not said here* | winnings | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winning=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 {#o1} £1,240 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change:e2:o1:1 # text = £1,240 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1,240 1,240 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} £840 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change:e2:o2:1 # text = £840 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 840 840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £200 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change:e2:o3:1 # text = £200 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £1,040 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change:e2:o4:1 # text = £1,040 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 1,040 1,040 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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