--- title: Priya laughs: shells as money? What makes anything work as money? — Writing, laws and money: how strangers… · tree and pragmatics description: Priya laughs: shells as money? What makes anything work as money? 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What makes anything work as money? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Priya · **What happens:** laugh, make · **To what, where:** shells, anything work This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 63 «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history 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/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Priya laughs: shells as money? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t5:1 # text = Priya laughs: shells as money? 1 Priya Priya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | present | Priya | shells | | | | as money | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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 makes anything work as money? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t5:2 # text = What makes anything work as money? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 compound _ _ 4 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | | anything work | | | | as money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material work=Product | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} It must have a king's face ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t5:o1:1 # text = It must have a king's face 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | must | It | a king's face | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} People trust and accept it ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t5:o2:1 # text = People trust and accept it 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 accept accept VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | present | People | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **accept** | present | People *not said here* | it | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} It must be made of gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t5:o3:1 # text = It must be made of gold 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | must · passive | | It | | | | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ### Option 4 {#o4} It must be printed on paper ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t5:o4:1 # text = It must be printed on paper 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **print** | must · passive | | It | | paper | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on paper=Destination | **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. 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