Test 8 · ★ · In-game currency: coins and gems are real money

What would happen if a game showed prices in pounds instead of gems?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: game · What happens: happen, show · To what, where: prices

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 16 «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» 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 showed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 showed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 pounds	case
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 showed	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 gems	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pounds	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show a condition, not said to happen	past	a game	prices				in pounds instead gems	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Patient in pound=Topic

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

Gems would be worth more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worth	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worth	cop
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 worth	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People would see the real cost and might spend less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cost	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cost	amod
6	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spend	cc
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 spend	aux
9	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 spend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	People	the real cost					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cost=Stimulus
2	spend	might	People not said here						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Everything would become cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp

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

Option 4

Nothing at all would change

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

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

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