Test 4 · Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet

What would happen if everyone kept wallets they found?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, wallets · What happens: happen, keep, find · To what, where: wallets

This is test 4 of lesson 95 «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» of the religion ethics 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 kept	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	wallets	wallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wallets	acl:relcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	wallets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme
3	find	past	wallets = wallet	wallets not said here	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Topic

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

Wallets would stop being made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wallets	wallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Wallets						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund · passive	Wallets not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 2

Nobody would ever lose a wallet again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 lose	advmod
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wallet	det
6	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	Nobody	a wallet			ever; again		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would be richer and happier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 richer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 richer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 richer	cop
4	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 happier	cc
6	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 richer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone					rich property	tree rules
2	be		Everyone not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People who lose things would never get them back, and trust would fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fall	cc
12	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fall	aux
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose	present	People	things	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	not get back	would	People	things = thing	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	fall	would	trust		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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