Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Politics / UK elections and the prime minister, a… / t6

Test 6 · ★ · UK elections and the prime minister, as reported

Ethan's dad in Kent: "Reform got one in seven votes but five seats, that doesn't add up!" Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, that · What happens: get, not add up · To what, where: one, seven votes

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Ethan's dad in Kent: "Reform got one in seven votes but five seats, that doesn't add up!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ethan	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Kent	case
5	Kent	Kent	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
8	Reform	reform	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 got	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 votes	case
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 votes	nummod
13	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	obl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seats	cc
15	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 seats	nummod
16	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 votes	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 add	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 add	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 add	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 add	advmod
21	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 got	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 add	compound:prt
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 add	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 add	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	Ethan's dad in Kent	one		seven votes but five seats			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	not add up speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support	that						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Seats are given by age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 age	case
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive	age	Seats					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

They chose not to take seats

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	2 chose	nsubj
2	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chose	xcomp
6	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	They						tree rules
2	not take	to-infinitive	They not said here	seats					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme

Option 3

Most of their votes were lost in the post and arrived after the count was over

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 lost	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 votes	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 votes	nmod:poss
4	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Most	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 post	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 post	det
9	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 arrived	cc
11	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	conj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 count	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 count	det
14	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 over	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 over	cop
16	over	over	ADV	_	11 arrived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		Most of their votes		the post			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	arrive	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past					after the count	over property	tree rules
4	vote		their = they						nom vote «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

First past the post gives nothing to second place in each area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 gives	advmod
2	past	past	ADP	_	4 post	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 post	det
4	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obl
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 place	compound
7	to	to	PART	_	8 second	mark
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 area	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 area	det
12	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present		nothing second place		each area		past the post; first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/politics/17-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported/t6/