Test 10 · ★ · US elections and the president, as reported

What would happen if a candidate won only the biggest five states?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: candidate · What happens: happen, win · To what, where: biggest five states

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 16 «US elections and the president, as reported» 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 won	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 candidate	det
6	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 won	nsubj
7	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	12 states	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 states	det
10	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 states	amod
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 states	nummod
12	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 won	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	win a condition, not said to happen	past	a candidate	the biggest five states					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality

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

The election would be repeated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 election	det
2	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repeated	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 repeated	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 repeated	aux:pass
5	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	would · passive		the election					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They might still fall short of 270 electors

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 fall	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 electors	case
7	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 electors	nummod
8	electors	elector	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	might	They				still	short property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They would win automatically

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 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	3 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	They					automatically property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The other states would not vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 states	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 states	amod
3	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vote	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 vote	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 vote	advmod
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not vote	would	the other states						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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