Test 11 · ★★ · Immigration and borders

What would happen if a country decided asylum claims much faster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country · What happens: happen, decide · To what, where: asylum claims

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» 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 decided	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 decided	nsubj
7	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	asylum	asylum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 claims	compound
9	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 decided	obj
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 faster	advmod
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 decided	advmod
12	?	?	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	decide a condition, not said to happen	past	a country	asylum claims				fast property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent claim=Topic

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

Every single claim would be refused straight away, without a hearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 claim	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 claim	amod
3	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 refused	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 refused	aux:pass
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 refused	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hearing	punct
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 hearing	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hearing	det
12	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would · passive		every single claim				away property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Nobody would ever ask for asylum again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 ask	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 asylum	case
6	asylum	asylum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	would	Nobody				ever; again	for asylum	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People would wait less time in hotels for an answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	aux
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hotels	case
7	hotels	hotel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 answer	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	would	People			hotels	time	for a answer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hotel=Location

Option 4

The Channel would close to boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Channel	det
2	Channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 close	aux
4	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 boats	case
6	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	would	the Channel		boats				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boat=Recipient

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