Test 9 · ★★ · Unit prices and sales that are not really sales

What would happen if nobody ever checked "was" prices?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, check, be

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Unit prices and sales that are not really sales» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 checked	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
11	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	ever	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	be in a quote	past	nobody not said here		vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Shops could raise prices before sales and fake big discounts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raise	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 raise	aux
3	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raise	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 sales	case
6	sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 raise	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 discounts	cc
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 discounts	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 discounts	amod
10	discounts	discount	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sales	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	could	Shops	prices		sales and fake big discounts			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent price=Theme before sale=Destination

Option 2

Prices would always fall by half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 half	case
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Prices					by half; always property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by half=Location

Option 3

Every price would become fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

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

Option 4

Sales would stop happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sales	sale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Sales						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	happen	gerund	Sales not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/13-unit-prices-and-sales-that-are-not-really-sales/t9/