Exam question 4 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

Determine the number of Electoral College votes requisite for election to the presidency of the United States.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, number · What happens: determine, vote · To what, where: requisite, presidency

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 votes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 College	case
5	Electoral	Electoral	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 College	compound
6	College	College	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 number	nmod
7	votes	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Determine	ccomp
8	requisite	requisite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 votes	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 election	case
10	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 votes	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 presidency	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 presidency	det
13	presidency	presidency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 votes	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 States	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 States	det
16	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 States	amod
17	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 presidency	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	vote	present	the number of Electoral College	requisite				to the presidency of the United States goal; for election	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent requisite=Theme to presidency=Goal

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

Two hundred and seventy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seventy	cc
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 2

Two hundred and sixty-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nine	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nine	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Five hundred and thirty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eight	cc
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eight	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 thirty	punct
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

Option 4

Four hundred and thirty-five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 five	cc
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 thirty	punct
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	conj

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

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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