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title: ★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I… — Olympiad: best buys and change at the… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I pay £8, bussin'." What does she really pay? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★

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★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I pay £8, bussin'." What does she really pay?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, I · **What happens:** buy, get, pay · **To what, where:** one, second half price, £ bussin

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: best buys and change at the till ★★★» 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/41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I pay £8, bussin'."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t11:1
# text = ★★★ Ava: "both books are £8, buy one get the second half price, so I pay £8, bussin'."
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	compound	_	_
19	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	bussin	bussin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** *in a quote* | infinitive | ★ ★ Ava | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | ★ ★ Ava *not said here* | the second half price |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus |
| 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | present | I | £ bussin |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bussin=Asset |

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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:* What does she really pay?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t11:2
# text = What does she really pay?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present · do-support | ★ |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t11:o1:1
# text = £4
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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£12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t11:o2:1
# text = £12
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	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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£8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t11:o3:1
# text = £8
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	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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£16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:41-olympiad-best-buys-and-change-at-the-till:t11:o4:1
# text = £16
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	16	16	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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