Test 7 · Prices and change at the till

What would happen if nobody ever checked their change?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody, their · What happens: happen, check, change · To what, where: change

This is test 7 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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	_	7 checked	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 checked	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 checked	advmod
7	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 change	nmod:poss
9	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 checked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	their change	ever	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme
3	change		their = they			nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Mistakes and tricks would go unnoticed and people would lose money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tricks	cc
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mistakes	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lose	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lose	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lose	aux
10	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	Mistakes and tricks					unnoticed property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	would	people	money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Shops would always give too much change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 change	amod
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	Shops	much change				always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, tills are never wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tills	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	tills	till	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Nothing tills					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Change would become free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

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

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