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title: What would happen if every library charged for each book? — Learning through the ages: schools, un… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if every library charged for each book? Test 4 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 4 · Learning through the ages: schools, universities, librarie…

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What would happen if every library charged for each book?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, charge · **To what, where:** library

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This is test 4 of lesson 64 «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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/64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t4:1
# text = What would happen if every library charged for each book?
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | every library |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** | participle |  | every library *not said here* |  |  |  | for each book | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 at all would change for anyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all would change for anyone
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  | for anyone | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Books would all become free in the shops instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t4:o2:1
# text = Books would all become free in the shops instead
1	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Books |  |  |  |  | all, free, instead *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Everyone would read more, because paying is fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t4:o3:1
# text = Everyone would read more, because paying is fun
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |

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

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Poor families could not read books they cannot buy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:64-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science:t4:o4:1
# text = Poor families could not read books they cannot buy
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** | could | Poor families | books |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **buy** | can | families *= family* | books *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |

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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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