Test 7 · ★ · UK elections and the prime minister, as reported

«Labour won a massive majority so like everyone voted for them» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Labour · What happens: win, vote, be · To what, where: massive majority · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct
2	Labour	Labour	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 majority	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 majority	amod
6	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 voted	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 voted	obl
10	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 voted	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 wrong	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 won	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	win in a quote	past	Labour	a massive majority		tree rules
2	vote in a quote	past	Labour not said here		like everyone; for them = they goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for they=Goal
3	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

Labour got fewer seats than votes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 seats	amod
4	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 votes	case
6	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Labour	fewer seats				than votes	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus

Option 2

Every voter chose Labour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 voter	det
2	voter	voter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Labour	Labour	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	every voter	Labour					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Tories won more votes than Labour, but the Speaker gave Labour the extra seats instead

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tories	det
2	Tories	tory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 votes	amod
5	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 won	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Labour	case
7	Labour	Labour	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 votes	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Speaker	det
11	Speaker	Speaker	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	conj
13	Labour	Labour	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 gave	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 seats	det
15	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seats	amod
16	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obj
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 won	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the Tories	more votes				than Labour; instead property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality
2	give	past	the Speaker	the extra seats	Labour				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent labour=Recipient seat=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Labour won about a third of the votes; first past the post turned that into lots of seats

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 third	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 third	det
5	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 votes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 votes	det
8	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 third	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 turned	advmod
11	past	past	ADP	_	14 turned	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 post	det
13	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	nsubj
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 won	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 turned	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 lots	case
17	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turned	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 seats	case
19	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	Labour	a third of the votes					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Eventuality
2	turn	past	the post	that		lots of seats		first property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into lot=Trajectory

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