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title: Ben saved £40 over 10 weeks and the game was £35. How much did he ha… — Saving up for a game · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben saved £40 over 10 weeks and the game was £35. How much did he have left? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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 10 · ★★ · Saving up for a game

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Ben saved £40 over 10 weeks and the game was £35. How much did he have left?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, much · **What happens:** save, leave

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Saving up for a game» 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/8-saving-up-for-a-game/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben saved £40 over 10 weeks and the game was £35.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t10:1
# text = Ben saved £40 over 10 weeks and the game was £35.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | Ben |  |  |  | week |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=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:* How much did he have left?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t10:2
# text = How much did he have left?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · do-support | much |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

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

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£5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t10: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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£0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t10:o2:1
# text = £0
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	0	0	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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£15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t10:o3:1
# text = £15
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	15	15	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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£75

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:8-saving-up-for-a-game:t10:o4:1
# text = £75
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	75	75	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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