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Test 4 · Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones

A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, cavemen · What happens: show, pay, be · To what, where: cavemen

This is test 4 of lesson 5 «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» 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: A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
5	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cavemen	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cards	case
7	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cards	compound
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paying	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	cavemen					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caveman=Recipient
2	pay	gerund	cavemen not said here					with credit cards	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

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

Cards came thousands of years later; early people used things like shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 came	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
8	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 shells	case
13	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 things	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Cards	thousands of years				late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past	early people	things				like shells	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient

Option 2

Cards were invented before coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 coins	case
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Cards			before coins		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3

Cavemen used phones, not cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cards	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cards	advmod
6	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Cavemen	phones				cards obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, cavemen had the first bank cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cards	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 cards	amod
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cards	compound
8	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nothing	the first bank cards					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient

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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