Test 4 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…

What would happen if every library charged for each book?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, charge · To what, where: library

This is test 4 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 library	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 library	det
6	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 library	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 book	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 book	det
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charged	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		every library					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	charge	participle		every library not said here				for each book	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Nothing at all would change for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for anyone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Books would all become free in the shops instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shops	det
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 free	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Books					all, free, instead property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Everyone would read more, because paying is fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 read	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 read	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 paying	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 paying	mark
7	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fun	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fun	cop
9	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 read	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	read	would	Everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pay	gerund			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		fun property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Poor families could not read books they cannot buy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 families	amod
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 read	advmod
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buy	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 buy	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 buy	advmod
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 books	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	could	Poor families	books					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2	not buy	can	families = family	books not said here					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

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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