Test 7 · Votes for women

What would happen in a country where only half the people could vote?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: happen, vote · To what, where: country

This is test 7 of lesson 32 «Votes for women» of the history 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 vote	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 people	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vote	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 vote	aux
13	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 country	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a country			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location
2	vote	could	half people						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Laws would be fairer for everyone, since men always know best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fairer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fairer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fairer	cop
4	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 fairer	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 know	mark
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 know	nsubj
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fairer	conj
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Laws					for everyone; fair property	tree rules
2	know	present	men	best				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Laws would be made without the other half having a say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	without	without	ADP	_	8 half	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 half	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 half	amod
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 made	obl
9	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 say	det
11	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · passive		Laws				without the other half	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	have	gerund		a say					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient

Option 3

Nobody would make any laws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 laws	det
5	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	Nobody	any laws					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	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

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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