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title: What would happen if your speaker had no PIN and your little cousin… — Stop, think, check, ask · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if your speaker had no PIN and your little cousin shouted "buy that game"? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 14 «Stop, think, check, ask» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Stop, think, check, ask

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What would happen if your speaker had no PIN and your little cousin shouted "buy that game"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** speaker, little cousin · **What happens:** happen, have, shout, buy · **To what, where:** PIN, game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 14 «Stop, think, check, ask» of the AI 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:14-stop-think-check-ask:t2:1
# text = What would happen if your speaker had no PIN and your little cousin shouted "buy that game"?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	PIN	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	buy	buy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	det	_	_
18	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | your speaker | no PIN |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pin=Patient |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **buy** *in a quote* |  | your little cousin | that game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing, speakers can't buy things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:14-stop-think-check-ask:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, speakers can't buy things
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** | can | Nothing speakers | things |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The speaker would ask Grandma

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:14-stop-think-check-ask:t2:o2:1
# text = The speaker would ask Grandma
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | would | the speaker |  | Grandma |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandma=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The game would be completely free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:14-stop-think-check-ask:t2:o3:1
# text = The game would be completely free
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the game |  |  |  |  | completely, free *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It might spend real money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:14-stop-think-check-ask:t2:o4:1
# text = It might spend real money
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | might | It | real money |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |

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**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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