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Test 10 · ★ · Votes, parties and the people in charge

Mia, aged 10, wants the park swings fixed and the law changed. What can she do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, park, law · What happens: want, swing, fix, change, do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 31 «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Mia, aged 10, wants the park swings fixed and the law changed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wants	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 aged	punct
3	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mia	amod
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 aged	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mia	punct
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swings	nsubj
9	swings	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wants	conj
10	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 swings	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 changed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 law	det
13	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changed	nsubj
14	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fixed	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Mia						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	swing	present	the park						tree rules
3	fix	participle	the park not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	change	past	the law						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What can she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	law						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wait until she is 18 to say anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 18	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 18	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 18	cop
5	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Wait	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	she	18					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Write a letter to her local MP

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 MP	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 MP	nmod:poss
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 MP	amod
7	MP	mp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	a letter	her local MP				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to mp=Recipient

Option 3

Go and vote at the polling station

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 vote	cc
3	vote	vote	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 station	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 station	det
6	polling	polling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 station	compound
7	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote	infinitive	you not said here			the polling station			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing, children have no say at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 say	det
6	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 say	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	children	Nothing					tree rules

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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