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title: A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards. What's wrong? — Money's history: shells, coins, paper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards. What's wrong? Test 4 of lesson 5 «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones

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A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon, cavemen · **What happens:** show, pay, be · **To what, where:** cavemen

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This is test 4 of lesson 5 «Money's history: shells, coins, paper, cards, phones» 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/5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones:t4:1
# text = A cartoon shows cavemen paying with credit cards.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | cavemen |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caveman=Recipient |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | cavemen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with credit cards | vn pay-68-1 «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's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones:t4:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Cards came thousands of years later; early people used things like shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones:t4:o1:1
# text = Cards came thousands of years later; early people used things like shells
1	Cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Cards | thousands of years |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | early people | things |  |  |  | like shells | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cards were invented before coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones:t4:o2:1
# text = Cards were invented before coins
1	Cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive |  | Cards |  |  | before coins |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cavemen used phones, not cards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones:t4:o3:1
# text = Cavemen used phones, not cards
1	Cavemen	caveman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Cavemen | phones |  |  |  | cards *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, cavemen had the first bank cards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:5-money-s-history-shells-coins-paper-cards-phones:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing, cavemen had the first bank cards
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
7	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Nothing | the first bank cards |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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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