Test 8 · ★ · Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust ea…

What would happen at a market if every stall used different weights?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: market, stall

This is test 8 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 market	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 market	det
6	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 used	mark
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 stall	det
9	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	nsubj:pass
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weights	amod
12	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a market			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at market=Location
2	use a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		every stall					tree rules

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

Option 1

Nothing at all, because nobody would notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 notice	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 notice	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	nobody						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Buyers could be cheated and trust would fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buyers	buyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cheated	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cheated	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheated	aux:pass
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
6	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cheated	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	could · passive		Buyers					vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	fall	would	trust						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Everything at the market would be free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 free	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 market	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 market	det
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everything	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 free	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 free	cop
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everything					free property	tree rules

Option 4

Apples would grow bigger to fill the weights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fill	mark
6	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 weights	det
8	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Apples					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fill	to-infinitive	Apples not said here	the weights					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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