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Test 6 · Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones

Rosa's mate says "Roman soldiers 100% got paid in salt, that's a fact." What's more careful to say?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, that · What happens: say, pay, be · To what, where: Roman soldiers, salt, fact · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Rosa's mate says "Roman soldiers 100% got paid in salt, that's a fact."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rosa	Rosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Rosa	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 soldiers	punct
6	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soldiers	amod
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	obj
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 %	nummod
9	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	11 paid	nsubj:pass
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 paid	aux:pass
11	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 soldiers	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 salt	case
13	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fact	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fact	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fact	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fact	det
18	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldiers	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 soldiers	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 soldiers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Rosa's mate	Roman soldiers and a fact					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic
2	pay in a quote	past · passive		Roman soldiers and a fact not said here		salt			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
3	is a in a quote	present	that	a fact					tree rules

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 more careful to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 careful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 careful	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 careful	advmod
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 careful	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						careful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

No, Romans never used salt at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 Romans	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 salt	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 salt	amod
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 salt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, every Roman soldier got only salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 soldier	det
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldier	amod
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 salt	advmod
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	every Roman soldier	salt					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salt=Stimulus

Option 3

Romans were paid in phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 phones	case
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		Romans		phones			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The word salary comes from salt, but historians argue about the payment story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salary	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 salary	compound
3	salary	salary	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 salt	case
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 argue	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 argue	cc
9	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 argue	nsubj
10	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 story	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
13	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 story	compound
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the word salary			salt			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from salt=Initial_Location
2	argue speech: disagree	present	historians					about the payment story	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about story=Topic

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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