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title: What would happen if every shop suddenly stopped trusting £10 notes? — What money is and why people accept it · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if every shop suddenly stopped trusting £10 notes? Test 5 of lesson 1 «What money is and why people accept it» of the money 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 5 · What money is and why people accept it

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What would happen if every shop suddenly stopped trusting £10 notes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shop · **What happens:** happen, stop, trust · **To what, where:** notes

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This is test 5 of lesson 1 «What money is and why people accept it» of the money 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/money/1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it:t5:1
# text = What would happen if every shop suddenly stopped trusting £10 notes?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | every shop |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **trust** | gerund | every shop *not said here* | notes |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme note=Eventuality |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The notes would be worth double the very next day instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it:t5:o1:1
# text = The notes would be worth double the very next day instead
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	double	double	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the notes |  |  |  | day | instead, worth *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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People would get free shopping with them for a whole week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it:t5:o2:1
# text = People would get free shopping with them for a whole week
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | People | free shopping |  |  | week | with them *= they* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shopping=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The notes would be almost useless for buying anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it:t5:o3:1
# text = The notes would be almost useless for buying anything
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the notes |  |  |  |  | almost, useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund | the notes *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, because notes are always worth the same amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:1-what-money-is-and-why-people-accept-it:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing, because notes are always worth the same amount
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | notes |  |  |  |  | always, worth *property* | tree rules |

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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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