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title: A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds mo… — Olympiad: saving plans and offers too… · tree and pragmatics
description: A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds monthly thereafter. Ascertain the total paid over twelve months. Exam question 3 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 3 · Olympiad: saving plans and offers too good to be true ★★★

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A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds monthly thereafter. Ascertain the total paid over twelve months.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** subscription, you · **What happens:** be, cost, ascertain, pay · **To what, where:** eight pounds, total

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds monthly thereafter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e3:1
# text = A subscription is free for the first month and costs eight pounds monthly thereafter.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	subscription	subscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	monthly	monthly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a subscription |  |  |  | month | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cost** | present | a subscription *not said here* | eight pounds |  |  |  | thereafter *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value |

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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 total paid over twelve months.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e3:2
# text = Ascertain the total paid over twelve months.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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 total |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent total=Topic |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | the total *not said here* |  |  | month |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ninety-six pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e3:o1:1
# text = Ninety-six pounds
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eight pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e3:o2:1
# text = Eight pounds
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eighty pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e3:o3:1
# text = Eighty pounds
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Eighty-eight pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:42-olympiad-saving-plans-and-offers-too-good-to-be-true:e3:o4:1
# text = Eighty-eight pounds
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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