--- title: Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★ — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: This last olympiad lesson mixes the grown-up plans and the money of the whole course into puzzles: what must come first, wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Olympiad: plans in order and money sum… # Olympiad: plans in order and money sums ★★★ Lesson 62 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/0/) — This last olympiad lesson mixes the grown-up plans and the money of the whole course into puzzles: what must come first, what is left after the bills, and which deal is really cheaper. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/1/) — A grown-up plan is a chain: you cannot book a van for moving day before you know where you are moving, and you cannot send wedding invitations before the date and the place are fixed. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/2/) — Money puzzles need only adding, taking away, times and sharing, but they hide traps: a sign that says «half price» when it is not, a «free» item you never needed, a loan that costs more than the price. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/3/) — Scene: in a flat in Bristol, Dad has £100 for the week. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/4/) — He writes on the back of an envelope: food £45, bus fares £20, power £15. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/6/) — For every puzzle ask: What has to happen first? - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/7/) — Which numbers really count? - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/8/) — What is the total at the end, and is there a cheaper way? - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/9/) — In a plan some steps must come first: the date and the place before the invitations, the new home before the van, the van before moving day. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/10/) — Renting a new home goes in order: find the home, sign and pay the deposit, book a van, pack, move in, then give people the new address. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/11/) — A budget starts with the money coming in, takes away the bills, and what is left is for extras and saving. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/12/) — To find how many weeks of saving are needed, take away what you already have from the price, then share the rest by the amount saved each week. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/13/) — Borrowing costs extra: if you borrow £40 and pay back £46, the extra £6 is interest, while saving up first costs nothing extra. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/16/) — A family ticket is only a good deal after checking: add up the single tickets for your family and compare. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/17/) — Change is the money handed over take away the price. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/18/) — Buy now pay later splits a price into equal payments; the total is still the full price, and a late payment adds a charge. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/19/) — A month is a bit more than 4 weeks, so £5 a week costs more than £20 a month. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/20/) — When money comes in, the must-pay bills (rent, power, food) come before treats. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/62-olympiad-plans-in-order-and-money-sums/21/) — If a bank card is lost, the bank should be told at once so it can block the card. - ← previous: [Olympiad: what is really going on ★★★](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/61-olympiad-what-is-really-going-on/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)