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title: What would happen if nobody's notes had any security features? — Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dol… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if nobody's notes had any security features? Test 5 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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 · Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents

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What would happen if nobody's notes had any security features?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** notes, nobody · **What happens:** happen, have, note · **To what, where:** security features

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This is test 5 of lesson 2 «Coins and notes: pounds and pence, dollars and cents» 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/2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t5:1
# text = What would happen if nobody's notes had any security features?
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	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody's notes | any security features |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feature=Patient |
| 3 | **note** |  | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: 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 {#o1}

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Prices in shops would all go down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t5:o1:1
# text = Prices in shops would all go down
1	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | would | Prices in shops |  |  |  |  | all, down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Notes would last longer in your pocket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t5:o2:1
# text = Notes would last longer in your pocket
1	Notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | would | Notes |  |  | your pocket |  | long *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nothing, because nobody ever makes fake money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t5:o3:1
# text = Nothing, because nobody ever makes fake money
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | nobody | fake money |  |  | ever |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Product |

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

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Fake notes would be easy to make and shops could lose money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:2-coins-and-notes-pounds-and-pence-dollars-and-cents:t5:o4:1
# text = Fake notes would be easy to make and shops could lose money
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Fake notes |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Fake notes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **lose** | could | shops | money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |

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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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