Test 3 · What money is and why people accept it
A cartoon pirate buys a whole ship with one shiny button. What's wrong with this?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon pirate · What happens: buy, be · To what, where: whole ship
This is test 3 of lesson 1 «What money is and why people accept it» of the money 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: A cartoon pirate buys a whole ship with one shiny button.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pirate | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pirate | compound |
| 3 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buys | nsubj |
| 4 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ship | amod |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buys | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 button | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 button | nummod |
| 10 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 button | amod |
| 11 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buys | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buys | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | a cartoon pirate | a whole ship | with one shiny button | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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's wrong with this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with this; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Ships can only be bought with yo-yos
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bought | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bought | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bought | aux:pass |
| 5 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 yos | case |
| 7 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yos | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 yo | punct |
| 9 | yos | yo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | can · passive | Ships | with yo yos | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Pirates always paid with buttons, so it's correct
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 paid | advmod |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 buttons | case |
| 5 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 correct | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 correct | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 correct | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 correct | cop |
| 10 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paid | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Pirates | with buttons; always property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | correct property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A button isn't money, because nobody agreed to take it as money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 button | det |
| 2 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 money | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 money | advmod |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreed | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 agreed | mark |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 agreed | nsubj |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 money | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 agreed | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a button | money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | nobody | money not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent money=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | button | as money | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as money=Attribute |
Option 4
Nothing, buttons were money in pirate times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 buttons | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 money | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 money | cop |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 times | case |
| 7 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 times | compound |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 money | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Nothing buttons | money | time | tree rules |
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