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Test 9 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud." What does it really mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, landslide, winner · What happens: say, bury, mean · To what, where: landslide, winner, mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 TikTok	case
4	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kid	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 landslide	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 landslide	punct
8	landslide	landslide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
9	=	=	SYM	_	13 buried	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 winner	det
11	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	nsubj:pass
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 buried	aux:pass
13	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 landslide	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 mud	case
15	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buried	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a kid on TikTok	landslide					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent landslide=Topic
2	bury in a quote	past · passive	landslide not said here	the winner		mud			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mud=Destination

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: What does it really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	winner						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Winning by one single vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 vote	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 vote	nummod
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vote	amod
5	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Winning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	gerund						by one single vote	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

An election held in the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 election	det
2	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj:pass
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	participle · passive		a election		the mountains			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in mountain=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Winning by a very big amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	6 amount	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 amount	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 amount	amod
6	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Winning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	gerund						by a big amount	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Losing by a very big amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	6 amount	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 amount	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 amount	amod
6	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund						by a big amount	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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