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title: Grandad says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters." If a £25 co… — Wants and needs · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters." If a £25 coat lasts 5 winters, how much per winter? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Wants and needs

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Grandad says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters." If a £25 coat lasts 5 winters, how much per winter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Grandad, coat, £ coat · **What happens:** say, last · **To what, where:** day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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/7-wants-and-needs/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t11:1
# text = Grandad says "back in my day a coat lasted ten winters."
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	ccomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **last** *in a quote* | past | a coat | my day *not said here* |  |  | winter |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme day=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:* If a £25 coat lasts 5 winters, how much per winter?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t11:2
# text = If a £25 coat lasts 5 winters, how much per winter?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | a £ coat |  |  |  | winter |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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£5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t11:o1:1
# text = £5
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	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 {#o2}

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£10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t11:o2:1
# text = £10
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	10	10	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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£2.50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t11:o3:1
# text = £2.50
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2.50	2.50	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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£25

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:7-wants-and-needs:t11:o4:1
# text = £25
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	25	25	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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