Test 5 · What money is and why people accept it

What would happen if every shop suddenly stopped trusting £10 notes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shop · What happens: happen, stop, trust · To what, where: notes

This is test 5 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

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	_	8 stopped	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 stopped	advmod
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	£	£	SYM	_	9 trusting	obj
11	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trusting	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	every shop		suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	trust	gerund	every shop not said here	notes		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme note=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

The notes would be worth double the very next day instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 notes	det
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worth	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 worth	cop
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	double	double	ADP	_	10 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 next	advmod
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 worth	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the notes				day	instead, worth property	tree rules

Option 2

People would get free shopping with them for a whole week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shopping	amod
5	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shopping	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 week	amod
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	People	free shopping			week	with them = they	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shopping=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The notes would be almost useless for buying anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 notes	det
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 useless	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 useless	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 useless	cop
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 useless	advmod
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 buying	mark
8	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 useless	advcl
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the notes					almost, useless property	tree rules
2	buy	gerund	the notes not said here	anything					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, because notes are always worth the same amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 worth	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 worth	mark
4	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 worth	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 worth	advmod
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 amount	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 amount	amod
10	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	notes					always, worth property	tree rules

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