Exam question 1 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

Identify the principal reason for which the secrecy of the ballot is maintained.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, maintain · To what, where: principal reason, secrecy

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 maintained	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 secrecy	det
8	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maintained	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ballot	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ballot	det
11	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secrecy	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 maintained	aux:pass
13	maintained	maintain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	maintain	present · passive		the secrecy of the ballot				for the principal reason	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme

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

The protection of the voter from intimidation and from inducement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 protection	det
2	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 voter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voter	det
5	voter	voter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protection	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 intimidation	case
7	intimidation	intimidation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voter	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 inducement	cc
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 inducement	case
10	inducement	inducement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 intimidation	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect			the voter from intimidation and inducement					nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The prevention of candidates from learning of their own candidacy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prevention	det
2	prevention	prevention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 candidates	case
4	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prevention	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 learning	case
6	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 candidates	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 candidacy	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 candidacy	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 candidacy	amod
10	candidacy	candidacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent			candidates from learning of candidates's own candidacy					nom prevention «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The concealment of the total number of votes cast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 concealment	det
2	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 number	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 concealment	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 votes	case
8	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod
9	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 votes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	participle		votes not said here					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	conceal			the total number of votes					nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The acceleration of the counting process

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 acceleration	det
2	acceleration	acceleration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 process	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 process	det
5	counting	counting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 process	compound
6	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acceleration	nmod

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

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