Test 4 · ★★★ · What a bank does with your money and why banks lend

What would happen if everyone at one bank tried to take all their money out on the same morning?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, try, take out · To what, where: money

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 28 «What a bank does with your money and why banks lend» 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	_	9 tried	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 tried	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bank	nummod
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 everyone	nmod
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 money	det:predet
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 money	nmod:poss
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	11 take	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 morning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
20	?	?	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	try a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	take out not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	their money	morning	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

The bank would print more notes in the back room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bank	det
2	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 print	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 print	aux
4	print	print	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 notes	amod
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 print	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 room	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	compound
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 print	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	would	the bank	more notes		the back room			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Theme in room=Destination

Option 2

Nothing, because banks keep every saver's notes in separate drawers

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	_	5 keep	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 keep	mark
4	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 saver	det
7	saver	saver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 notes	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 saver	case
9	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 drawers	case
11	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 drawers	amod
12	drawers	drawer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	banks	every saver's notes		separate drawers			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent note=Theme in drawer=Location
2	note		every saver						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bank might not have enough cash to pay everyone at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bank	det
2	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cash	amod
7	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pay	mark
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 pay	iobj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	might	the bank	enough cash					tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	enough cash not said here		everyone				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Asset

Option 4

Everyone would get double their money back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	obj
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 money	nmod:poss
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Everyone	double					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent double=Beneficiary money=Theme

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