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title: Whereas a holiday is priced at £800 in an ordinary week and at £1,20… — Seasons, terms and holidays · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereas a holiday is priced at £800 in an ordinary week and at £1,200 during half-term, determine the additional cost. Exam question 4 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 4 · Seasons, terms and holidays

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Whereas a holiday is priced at £800 in an ordinary week and at £1,200 during half-term, determine the additional cost.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** price, determine · **To what, where:** holiday, additional cost

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 113 «Seasons, terms and holidays» of the world 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/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:e4:1
# text = Whereas a holiday is priced at £800 in an ordinary week and at £1,200 during half-term, determine the additional cost.
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	priced	price	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	£	£	SYM	$	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	1,200	1200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
17	during	during	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **price** | present · passive |  | a holiday |  |  |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at £=Value |
| 2 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the additional cost |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Topic |

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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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Four hundred pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:e4:o1:1
# text = Four hundred pounds
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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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Three hundred pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:e4:o2:1
# text = Three hundred pounds
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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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Two thousand pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:e4:o3:1
# text = Two thousand pounds
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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 {#o4}

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Eight hundred pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:113-seasons-terms-and-holidays:e4:o4:1
# text = Eight hundred pounds
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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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