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title: Ava's mum ignores the receipt: "nah, never check." What would happen… — Receipts, refunds, queues and self-che… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava's mum ignores the receipt: "nah, never check." What would happen if she never checked? Test 4 of lesson 14 «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» 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 rig
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# Test 4 · Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout

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Ava's mum ignores the receipt: "nah, never check." What would happen if she never checked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mum · **What happens:** ignore, not check, happen · **To what, where:** receipt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 14 «Receipts, refunds, queues and self-checkout» 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/14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ava's mum ignores the receipt: "nah, never check."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t4:1
# text = Ava's mum ignores the receipt: "nah, never check."
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ignores	ignore	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | present | Ava's mum | the receipt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **check** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would happen if she never checked?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t4:2
# text = What would happen if she never checked?
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	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	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 | **not** **check** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Prices would always be right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t4:o1:1
# text = Prices would always be right
1	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Prices |  |  |  |  | always, right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Mistakes like the extra £1.20 milk would be missed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t4:o2:1
# text = Mistakes like the extra £1.20 milk would be missed
1	Mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	£	£	SYM	$	_	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	1.20	1.20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | would · passive |  | Mistakes like the £ milk |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Receipts would stop printing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t4:o3:1
# text = Receipts would stop printing
1	Receipts	receipt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Receipts | printing |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality printing=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shops would always give money back anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:14-receipts-refunds-queues-and-self-checkout:t4:o4:1
# text = Shops would always give money back anyway
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	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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