Test 6 · What politics is: deciding things together

What would happen if a class had one football and nobody had any way of deciding who gets it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class, nobody, way · What happens: happen, have, decide, get · To what, where: one football, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 1 «What politics is: deciding things together» of the politics 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 football	nummod
9	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 deciding	mark
16	deciding	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 way	acl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 gets	nsubj
18	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 deciding	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gets	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a class	one football	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Patient
3	have	past	nobody	any way	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	decide	gerund	any way not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	present		way	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

Everyone would agree straight away, without even needing to talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 agree	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 agree	aux
3	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 agree	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 needing	punct
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 needing	mark
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 needing	advmod
9	needing	need	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 agree	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 talk	mark
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	would	Everyone	away property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	gerund	Everyone not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Arguments would go on, and the strongest might just grab it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grab	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grab	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strongest	det
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 grab	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grab	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 grab	advmod
11	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	would	Arguments						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	might	the strongest	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

The teacher would have to buy a brand new ball for every child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 buy	mark
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
8	brand	brand	ADV	_	9 new	advmod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 child	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the teacher						tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	the teacher not said here	a new ball				for every child	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ball=Theme for child=Beneficiary

Option 4

The football would somehow split itself into two separate balls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 football	det
2	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 split	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 split	aux
4	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	5 split	advmod
5	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 split	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 balls	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 balls	nummod
9	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 balls	amod
10	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 split	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	would	the football	football				into two separate balls result; somehow property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into ball=Result

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