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title: What would happen if nobody ever checked their change? — Prices and change at the till · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if nobody ever checked their change? Test 7 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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 7 · Prices and change at the till

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What would happen if nobody ever checked their change?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody, their · **What happens:** happen, check, change · **To what, where:** change

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This is test 7 of lesson 11 «Prices and change at the till» 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/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t7:1
# text = What would happen if nobody ever checked their change?
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	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	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 | **check** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody | their change |  |  | ever |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |
| 3 | **change** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Mistakes and tricks would go unnoticed and people would lose money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t7:o1:1
# text = Mistakes and tricks would go unnoticed and people would lose money
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unnoticed	unnoticed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | Mistakes and tricks |  |  |  |  | unnoticed *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | would | people | money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Shops would always give too much change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t7:o2:1
# text = Shops would always give too much change
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | Shops | much change |  |  |  | always *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, tills are never wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, tills are never wrong
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tills	till	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Nothing tills |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Change would become free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:11-prices-and-change-at-the-till:t7:o4:1
# text = Change would become free
1	Change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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

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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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