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title: What would happen if a toy factory could use each steel mould only o… — Toys and Lego · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a toy factory could use each steel mould only once? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» of the technology 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 6 · ★★ · Toys and Lego

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What would happen if a toy factory could use each steel mould only once?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** toy factory · **What happens:** happen, use · **To what, where:** steel mould

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» of the technology 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/technology/7-toys-and-lego/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a toy factory could use each steel mould only once?
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	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	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 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | a toy factory | each steel mould |  |  |  | once *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mould=Patient |

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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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Toys would get cheaper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t6:o1:1
# text = Toys would get cheaper
1	Toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Toys |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Every toy would cost a fortune, because moulds are very expensive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t6:o2:1
# text = Every toy would cost a fortune, because moulds are very expensive
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	moulds	mould	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | would | every toy | a fortune |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme fortune=Value |
| 2 | **is** | present | moulds |  |  |  |  | expensive *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t6:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Toys would get much stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:7-toys-and-lego:t6:o4:1
# text = Toys would get much stronger
1	Toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Toys |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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