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description: It is given that a bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved weekly. Determine the number of weeks required. Exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 2 · Saving up for a game

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It is given that a bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved weekly. Determine the number of weeks required.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** that, you · **What happens:** give, price, pound, hold, save, determine · **To what, where:** It, bicycle, eighty pounds, five pounds, number, weeks

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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/8-saving-up-for-a-game/#e2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved weekly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:e2:1
# text = It is given that a bicycle is priced at eighty pounds, that twenty pounds is already held, and that five pounds is saved weekly.
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	priced	price	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	already	already	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	weekly	weekly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **price** | present · passive |  | a bicycle |  | eighty pounds and twenty pounds |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at pound=Value |
| 3 | **pound** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **save** | present · passive |  | five pounds |  |  |  | weekly *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:* Determine the number of weeks required.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:e2:2
# text = Determine the number of weeks required.
1	Determine	determine	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 | **determine** | 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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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:e2:o1:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	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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Sixteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:e2:o2:1
# text = Sixteen
1	Sixteen	sixteen	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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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:e2:o3:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:e2:o4:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	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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**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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