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Test 5 · ★ · Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust ea…

Priya laughs: shells as money? What makes anything work as money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya · What happens: laugh, make · To what, where: shells, anything work

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 63 «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Priya laughs: shells as money?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 shells	punct
4	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laughs	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Priya	shells				as money	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What makes anything work as money?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 work	compound
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		anything work				as money	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material work=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It must have a king's face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	It	a king's face					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People trust and accept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 trust	nsubj
2	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 accept	cc
4	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 trust	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	present	People						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	accept	present	People not said here	it					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

It must be made of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	must · passive		It				of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

It must be printed on paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 printed	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 printed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 printed	aux:pass
4	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 paper	case
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 printed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	must · passive		It		paper			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on paper=Destination

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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