Test 6 · ★ · Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more

What would happen if Hannah tried to pay a London newsagent with euro coins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hannah · What happens: happen, try, pay · To what, where: London newsagent

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 3 «Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more» 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	_	6 tried	mark
5	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pay	mark
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 newsagent	det
10	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 newsagent	compound
11	newsagent	newsagent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 coins	case
13	euro	euro	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coins	compound
14	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 newsagent	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	Hannah			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hannah not said here	a London newsagent	with euro coins	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newsagent=Asset

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 shop must take them as if they were the same as pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 same	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 same	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 same	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 same	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 take	advcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 pounds	case
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	must	the shop	them = they					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	they					as pounds; same property	tree rules

Option 2

The coins would turn into pounds at the till

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coins	det
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 pounds	case
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 till	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 till	det
9	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the coins			pounds		at the till	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into pound=Source at till=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The shop would probably refuse, because it takes pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 refuse	advmod
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 takes	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 takes	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 takes	nsubj
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	ccomp
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	the shop					probably property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take	present	it	pounds					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme

Option 4

The shop would give her double the value

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 value	det
8	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 double	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the shop		her = she				tree rules
2	double	infinitive	the shop not said here	the value					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent value=Patient

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