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Test 8 · ★★★ · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

In a cartoon, the king fixes high prices by printing a mountain of money for everyone. What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: fix, print, happen · To what, where: high prices, cartoon, mountain

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, the king fixes high prices by printing a mountain of money for everyone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixes	nsubj
7	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prices	amod
9	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fixes	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 printing	mark
11	printing	print	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 fixes	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 printing	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 money	case
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mountain	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 everyone	case
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 printing	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fixes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	the king	high prices		a cartoon			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent price=Patient
2	print	gerund	the king not said here	a mountain of money				for everyone	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=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.

Sentence 2: What would really happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

With the same goods and more money, prices would shoot up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 goods	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goods	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goods	amod
4	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 shoot	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 money	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 money	amod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goods	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goods	punct
9	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shoot	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 shoot	aux
11	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 shoot	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot up	would	prices					with the same goods and more money	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The shops would close because money is boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shops	det
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 close	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 close	aux
4	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 boring	mark
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boring	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boring	cop
8	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 close	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	would	the shops						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	money					boring property	tree rules

Option 3

Prices would fall because money is everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everywhere	cop
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Prices					because money	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present						everywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

Everyone would be rich for ever with no problems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 rich	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 rich	cop
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 rich	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 problems	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 problems	det
9	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rich	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone					with no problems; rich property	tree rules

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