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description: What would happen if Hannah tried to pay a London newsagent with euro coins? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 3 «Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more» 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 wro
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# Test 6 · ★ · Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more

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What would happen if Hannah tried to pay a London newsagent with euro coins?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hannah · **What happens:** happen, try, pay · **To what, where:** London newsagent

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 3 «Money around the world: euros, hryvnias, yuan and more» 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/3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more:t6:1
# text = What would happen if Hannah tried to pay a London newsagent with euro coins?
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	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	newsagent	newsagent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	euro	euro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Hannah |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hannah *not said here* | a London newsagent |  |  |  | with euro coins | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newsagent=Asset |

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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 shop must take them as if they were the same as pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more:t6:o1:1
# text = The shop must take them as if they were the same as pounds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must | the shop | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | as pounds; same *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The coins would turn into pounds at the till

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more:t6:o2:1
# text = The coins would turn into pounds at the till
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the coins |  |  | pounds |  | at the till | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into pound=Source at till=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The shop would probably refuse, because it takes pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more:t6:o3:1
# text = The shop would probably refuse, because it takes pounds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | would | the shop |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | it | pounds |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The shop would give her double the value

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:3-money-around-the-world-euros-hryvnias-yuan-and-more:t6:o4:1
# text = The shop would give her double the value
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | the shop |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **double** | infinitive | the shop *not said here* | the value |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent value=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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