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Test 7 · ★ · Who can vote, and why children cannot

Jake asks, "Why wouldn't u vote if u could?" Which is a real reason people give?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, people · What happens: ask, not u, be, give · To what, where: vote, real reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Jake asks, "Why wouldn't u vote if u could?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 u	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 u	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 u	advmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 u	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 u	advmod
8	u	u	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asks	ccomp
9	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 u	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 u	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Jake						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not u in a quote	would		vote					tree rules

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: Which is a real reason people give?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	acl:relcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a real reason					tree rules
2	give	present	people	a real reason not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme

The options

Option 1

Polling stations only open at midnight when most are asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polling	polling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stations	compound
2	stations	station	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 open	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 open	advmod
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 asleep	mark
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 asleep	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 open	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	most					asleep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They feel unsure, busy, or unhappy with every choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	unsure	unsure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 unsure	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unhappy	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 unhappy	cc
8	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 choice	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 choice	det
11	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unhappy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	They					unsure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

People are not allowed to vote twice in a row, so they skip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 vote	mark
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 vote	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 row	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 row	det
10	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vote	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 skip	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 skip	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 skip	nsubj
14	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		People					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here			a row		twice property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	skip	present	People						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Voting costs one hundred pounds each time, paid at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 costs	nsubj
2	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pounds	nummod
5	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 costs	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 costs	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 paid	punct
9	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 costs	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Voting	hundred pounds			time		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pound=Value
2	pay	participle	Voting not said here			the door			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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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