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description: It is given that a pupil possessing six pounds saves five pounds weekly toward a game of thirty-six pounds. Ascertain the number of weeks required. Exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 1 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★

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It is given that a pupil possessing six pounds saves five pounds weekly toward a game of thirty-six pounds. Ascertain the number of weeks required.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pupil, you · **What happens:** give, possess, save, ascertain, require · **To what, where:** It, six pounds, five pounds, number, weeks

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» 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/42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a pupil possessing six pounds saves five pounds weekly toward a game of thirty-six pounds.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e1:1
# text = It is given that a pupil possessing six pounds saves five pounds weekly toward a game of thirty-six pounds.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** | gerund | a pupil *not said here* | six pounds |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pound=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | present | a pupil | five pounds |  |  |  | toward a game of six pounds | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme |

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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:* Ascertain the number of weeks required.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e1:2
# text = Ascertain the number of weeks required.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of weeks |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **require** | participle |  | weeks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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Six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e1:o1:1
# text = Six
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e1:o2:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e1:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e1:o4:1
# text = Eight
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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