--- title: What would happen at a market if every stall used different weights? — Writing, laws and money: how strangers… · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen at a market if every stall used different weights? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 63 «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Writing, laws and money: how strangers…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust ea… What would happen at a market if every stall used different weights? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen, use · **To what, where:** market, stall This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t8:1 # text = What would happen at a market if every stall used different weights? 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 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 11 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 weights weight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | a market | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at market=Location | | 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle · passive | | every stall | | | | | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Nothing at all, because nobody would notice ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t8:o1:1 # text = Nothing at all, because nobody would notice 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | would | nobody | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Buyers could be cheated and trust would fall ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t8:o2:1 # text = Buyers could be cheated and trust would fall 1 Buyers buyer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 cheated cheat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cheat** | could · passive | | Buyers | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | | 2 | **fall** | would | trust | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Everything at the market would be free ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t8:o3:1 # text = Everything at the market would be free 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | Everything | | | | | free *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Apples would grow bigger to fill the weights ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other:t8:o4:1 # text = Apples would grow bigger to fill the weights 1 Apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 weights weight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | would | Apples | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Apples *not said here* | the weights | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent weight=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. 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