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Test 11 · ★ · UK elections and the prime minister, as reported

Mia's brother, 16, says "Finally!" about the plan to let 16-year-olds vote. What would have to happen first?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, year olds · What happens: say, let, vote, have, happen · To what, where: year olds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 17 «UK elections and the prime minister, 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

Sentence 1: Mia's brother, 16, says "Finally!" about the plan to let 16-year-olds vote.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 16	punct
5	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 brother	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Finally	punct
9	Finally	finally	ADV	_	14 plan	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Finally	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Finally	punct
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 plan	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 plan	det
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 plan	acl
17	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 year	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 16	punct
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 olds	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 year	punct
21	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	obj
22	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia's brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	let	to-infinitive	Mia's brother not said here	year olds					tree rules
3	vote	infinitive	year olds not said here						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.

Sentence 2: What would have to happen first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 have	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 happen	mark
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 happen	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would							tree rules
2	happen	to-infinitive						first property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Mia's dad would have to agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mia	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 agree	mark
7	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Mia's dad						tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	to-infinitive	Mia's dad not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, it already applies everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 applies	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 applies	nsubj
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 applies	advmod
5	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 applies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	present	it					Nothing vocative; everywhere property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Parliament would have to pass a new law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 law	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 law	amod
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Parliament						tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	Parliament not said here	a new law					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory

Option 4

The King would have to vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	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 vote	mark
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the King						tree rules
2	vote	to-infinitive	the King not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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