Exam question 2 · Who can vote, and why children cannot

Pursuant to the law of the Commonwealth of Australia, ascertain the consequence of an eligible adult citizen's failure to vote without valid reason.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eligible adult citizen · What happens: ascertain, vote, fail · To what, where: consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	11 ascertain	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 law	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 law	det
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ascertain	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Commonwealth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Commonwealth	det
7	Commonwealth	Commonwealth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 law	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Australia	case
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Commonwealth	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 law	punct
11	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 consequence	det
13	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ascertain	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 failure	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 citizen	det
16	eligible	eligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 citizen	amod
17	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 citizen	compound
18	citizen	citizen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 failure	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 citizen	case
20	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 consequence	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 vote	mark
22	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 failure	acl
23	without	without	ADP	_	25 reason	case
24	valid	valid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reason	amod
25	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vote	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	present		the consequence of a eligible adult citizen's failure	to the law of the Commonwealth of Australia; pursuant property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic
2	vote	to-infinitive			without valid reason	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fail		a eligible adult citizen			nom failure «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The forfeiture of citizenship forthwith

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forfeiture	det
2	forfeiture	forfeiture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forthwith	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 citizenship	case
4	citizenship	citizenship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forfeiture	nmod
5	forthwith	forthwith	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forfeit			citizenship					nom forfeiture «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Mandatory imprisonment for a term of several years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mandatory	mandatory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imprisonment	compound
2	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 term	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 term	det
5	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imprisonment	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 term	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	term			several years					nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The imposition of a modest financial penalty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 imposition	det
2	imposition	imposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 penalty	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 penalty	det
5	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 penalty	amod
6	financial	financial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 penalty	amod
7	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imposition	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose			a modest financial penalty					nom imposition «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

No consequence of any description

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 consequence	det
2	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 description	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 description	det
5	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consequence	nmod

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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