--- title: A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk. Determi… — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics description: A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk. Determine the total earnings over four weeks. Exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/e4/) [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/) / [Pocket money and earning it with chores](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Pocket money and earning it with chores A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk. Determine the total earnings over four weeks. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child, you · **What happens:** walk, determine · **To what, where:** dog, one pound, total earnings This is exam question 4 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/#e4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:e4:1 # text = A child walks a dog five times weekly at one pound per walk. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 weekly weekly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 per per ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | a child | a dog | | one pound per walk | time | weekly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dog=Theme at pound=Trajectory | 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. *Sentence 2:* Determine the total earnings over four weeks. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:e4:2 # text = Determine the total earnings over four weeks. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 earnings earning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the total earnings | | | week | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earning=Topic | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Twenty-five pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:e4:o1:1 # text = Twenty-five pounds 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nine pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:e4:o2:1 # text = Nine pounds 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Twenty pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:e4:o3:1 # text = Twenty pounds 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Five pounds ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:e4:o4:1 # text = Five pounds 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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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