Test 5 · ★ · Who can vote, and why children cannot

What would happen if a country let only rich people vote?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country, rich people · What happens: happen, let, vote · To what, where: rich people

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» 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	_	7 let	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 rich	advmod
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 let	obj
11	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	present	a country	rich people	tree rules
3	vote	infinitive	rich people not said here		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Everyone would be equally represented anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 represented	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 represented	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 represented	aux:pass
4	equally	equally	ADV	_	5 represented	advmod
5	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 represented	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	represent	would · passive		Everyone				anyway, equally property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Leaders would mostly listen to the rich and others would have no say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 listen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 listen	advmod
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 rich	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rich	det
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 listen	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 listen	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 say	det
13	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	would	Leaders					to the rich; mostly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rich=Theme
2	have	would	others	no say					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient

Option 3

Poor people would be given two votes each instead, to make it fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 votes	nummod
7	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	obj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 votes	nmod:unmarked
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 given	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would · passive		Poor people				instead property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient vote=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		it				fair property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

Elections would stop being needed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stop	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Elections			all			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	need	gerund · passive	Elections not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»

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