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Test 8 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

Your Aussie mate says, "Me nan voted early at the arvo booth, then had a sausage." ("Arvo" means afternoon.) What kind of voting did nan do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie mate, Me nan, Arvo, nan · What happens: say, vote, have, mean, do · To what, where: arvo booth, sausage, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 2 «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» 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: Your Aussie mate says, "Me nan voted early at the arvo booth, then had a sausage."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	Aussie	aussie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	compound
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 voted	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 voted	punct
7	Me	me	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nan	amod
8	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 voted	nsubj
9	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
10	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 voted	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 booth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 booth	det
13	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 booth	compound
14	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 voted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 had	advmod
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sausage	det
19	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your Aussie mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	vote in a quote	past	Me nan			the arvo booth		early property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	past		a sausage			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=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: ("Arvo" means afternoon.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Arvo	punct
3	Arvo	Arvo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Arvo	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Arvo				afternoon		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What kind of voting did nan do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 voting	case
4	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	nan	what kind of voting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Early voting, before the main election day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 voting	amod
2	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
4	before	before	ADP	_	8 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
6	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
7	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 voting	conj

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

Option 2

Postal voting, with a sausage in the envelope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Postal	postal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 voting	amod
2	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sausage	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sausage	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sausage	det
6	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 voting	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 envelope	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 envelope	det
9	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sausage	nmod

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

Option 3

Double voting, once early and once on the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 voting	amod
2	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 early	punct
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 early	advmod
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 voting	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 once	cc
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 early	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 early	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No voting, because early votes are thrown out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 voting	det
2	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thrown	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 thrown	mark
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 votes	amod
6	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thrown	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	aux:pass
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 voting	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 thrown	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	present · passive	no voting not said here	early votes					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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