Test 4 · Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and…

What would happen if every Security Council member voted yes except one permanent member, which used its veto?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Council member, one permanent member, member · What happens: happen, vote, use, veto · To what, where: veto

This is test 4 of lesson 23 «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» 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	_	9 voted	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 member	det
6	Security	Security	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Council	compound
7	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 member	compound
8	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 voted	nsubj
9	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 voted	discourse
11	except	except	ADP	_	14 member	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 member	nummod
13	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 member	amod
14	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 voted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 used	nsubj
17	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 member	acl:relcl
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 veto	nmod:poss
19	veto	veto	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote a condition, not said to happen	past	every Council member		except one permanent member	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	use	past	one permanent member	member's veto		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veto=Patient
4	veto		member			nom veto «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

The decision would pass anyway, because most voted yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 decision	det
2	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pass	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	aux
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 pass	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 voted	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 voted	mark
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 voted	nsubj
9	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	advcl
10	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 pass	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	would	the decision					anyway property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote	past	most						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The decision would be blocked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 decision	det
2	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blocked	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blocked	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blocked	aux:pass
5	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	would · passive		the decision					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

The vote would be counted again until it passed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vote	det
2	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counted	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 counted	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 counted	aux:pass
5	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 counted	advmod
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 passed	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 counted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	would · passive		the vote			again		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	pass	past	vote						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That country would be thrown out of the UN at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thrown	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 thrown	aux:pass
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 UN	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 UN	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 UN	det
9	UN	UN	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	obl:agent
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	would · passive	the UN	that country					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at once=Destination

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