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description: In a cartoon, the king fixes high prices by printing a mountain of money for everyone. What would really happen? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Inflation explained with a chocolate bar

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In a cartoon, the king fixes high prices by printing a mountain of money for everyone. What would really happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** fix, print, happen · **To what, where:** high prices, cartoon, mountain

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «Inflation explained with a chocolate bar» 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/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, the king fixes high prices by printing a mountain of money for everyone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon, the king fixes high prices by printing a mountain of money for everyone.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	printing	print	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | present | the king | high prices |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent price=Patient |
| 2 | **print** | gerund | the king *not said here* | a mountain of money |  |  |  | for everyone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |

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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 really happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t8:2
# text = What would really happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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With the same goods and more money, prices would shoot up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t8:o1:1
# text = With the same goods and more money, prices would shoot up
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot up** | would | prices |  |  |  |  | with the same goods and more money | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The shops would close because money is boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t8:o2:1
# text = The shops would close because money is boring
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | would | the shops |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | money |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Prices would fall because money is everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t8:o3:1
# text = Prices would fall because money is everywhere
1	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | Prices |  |  |  |  | because money | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Everyone would be rich for ever with no problems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar:t8:o4:1
# text = Everyone would be rich for ever with no problems
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  | with no problems; rich *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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