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title: In a cartoon, a poor country becomes rich in one day by printing tru… — Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a poor country becomes rich in one day by printing trucks of money. What would really happen? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 37 «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries

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In a cartoon, a poor country becomes rich in one day by printing trucks of money. What would really happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poor country, one day · **What happens:** become, print, happen · **To what, where:** cartoon, trucks

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 37 «Trade, tariffs, rich and poor countries» 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/37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a poor country becomes rich in one day by printing trucks of money.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon, a poor country becomes rich in one day by printing trucks of money.
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	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	printing	print	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | a poor country |  |  |  | day | in a cartoon *result*; rich *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cartoon=Result |
| 2 | **print** | gerund | one day *not said here* | trucks of money |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truck=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:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries: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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Prices would shoot up, and people would be no richer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:t8:o1:1
# text = Prices would shoot up, and people would be no richer
1	Prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot up** | would | Prices |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | would | people |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The money would turn into gold overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:t8:o2:1
# text = The money would turn into gold overnight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the money |  |  | gold |  | overnight *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gold=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:t8:o3:1
# 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 |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Other countries would copy and all be rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:37-trade-tariffs-rich-and-poor-countries:t8:o4:1
# text = Other countries would copy and all be rich
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | would | Other countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | all |  |  |  |  | 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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