Test 5 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

What would happen if nobody's notes had any security features?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: notes, nobody · What happens: happen, have, note · To what, where: security features

This is test 5 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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 had	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 notes	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 nobody	case
7	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 features	det
10	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 features	compound
11	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody's notes	any security features	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Patient
3	note		nobody		nom note «communication transitive»: 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

Prices in shops would all go down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 shops	case
3	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Prices	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	would	Prices in shops					all, down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Notes would last longer in your pocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 last	aux
3	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 last	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	Notes			your pocket		long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because nobody ever makes fake money

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	_	6 makes	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 makes	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 makes	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 makes	advmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 money	amod
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	nobody	fake money			ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fake notes would be easy to make and shops could lose money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 notes	amod
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 easy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	cop
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lose	cc
9	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lose	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lose	aux
11	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	conj
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	Fake notes		easy property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	Fake notes not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	lose	could	shops	money		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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.

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