Test 5 · ★ · Votes, parties and the people in charge

If there were no taxes, what would happen to free schools and ambulances?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: taxes · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: free schools

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 were	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 taxes	det
5	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 happen	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happen	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	12 schools	mark
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 schools	amod
12	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 happen	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ambulances	cc
14	ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 schools	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no taxes not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	would	no taxes	free schools and ambulances					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1

They would be free because hospitals are rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 free	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 free	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 rich	mark
6	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rich	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rich	cop
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 free	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					free property	tree rules
2	is	present	hospitals					rich property	tree rules

Option 2

They would carry on exactly the same as they do now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	aux
3	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 carry	compound:prt
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carry	xcomp
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	advcl
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry on	would	They					same property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	they				now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They would not exist, because taxes pay for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 exist	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 exist	advmod
4	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pay	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 pay	mark
7	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pay	nsubj
8	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	would	They						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay	present	taxes					for them = they	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would be paid for by the Prime Minister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	aux:pass
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	4 paid	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 Minister	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Minister	det
8	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	9 Minister	compound
9	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would · passive	the Prime Minister	They					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset

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