Test 6 · ★ · US elections and the president, as reported

«Harris lost?? but Trump was already prez before, so that's not allowed fr» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Harris, Trump · What happens: lose, be, not allow · To what, where: prez, that

This is test 6 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct
2	Harris	Harris	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	??	??	PUNCT	_	9 prez	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 prez	cc
6	Trump	Trump	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prez	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prez	cop
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 prez	advmod
9	prez	prez	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
10	before	before	ADV	_	9 prez	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allowed	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 allowed	mark
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 allowed	nsubj:pass
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 allowed	advmod
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lost	conj
17	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allowed	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 allowed	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 wrong	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	cop
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 allowed	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	past	Harris			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	Trump	prez	before property	tree rules
3	not allow in a quote	present · passive		that		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	is	present			wrong property	tree rules

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 right answer

A president may serve two terms even with a gap between them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 president	det
2	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serve	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 serve	aux
4	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 terms	nummod
6	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 serve	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 gap	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 gap	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gap	det
10	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 serve	obl
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	may	a president	two terms				with a gap between terms	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent term=Recipient with gap=Theme

Option 2

He was never president before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 president	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 president	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 president	advmod
4	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	before	before	ADV	_	4 president	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	He	president				before property	tree rules

Option 3

Nobody can ever be president twice, so the result must have been a mistake

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 president	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 president	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 president	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 president	cop
5	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 president	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mistake	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	15 mistake	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 result	det
10	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mistake	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 mistake	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 mistake	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 mistake	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mistake	det
15	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 president	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	Nobody	president and a mistake			ever	twice property	tree rules
2	is a	must · perfect	the result	a mistake					tree rules

Option 4

He served 2021 to 2025

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 served	nsubj
2	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 served	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 2025	case
5	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 2021	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	past	He	2021	2025				vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent 2021=Theme to 2025=Recipient

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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