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Test 9 · ★ · Who can vote, and why children cannot

Your cousin, being a bit sus (suspicious), says a pop star got "VIP votes" in an election. Is that how it works?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, pop star, star · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: bit sus, VIP votes, election · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Your cousin, being a bit sus (suspicious), says a pop star got "VIP votes" in an election.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sus	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sus	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sus	compound
7	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	appos
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 suspicious	punct
9	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sus	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 suspicious	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cousin	punct
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 star	det
14	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 star	compound
15	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 says	ccomp
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 votes	punct
18	VIP	vip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 votes	compound
19	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 got	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 votes	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 election	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 election	det
23	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a bit sus					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Your cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past	a pop star	VIP votes		a election			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus

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: Is that how it works?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 works	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 works	mark
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 works	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 works	nsubj
5	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 works	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, famous people get ten votes each, by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 votes	nummod
7	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 votes	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 law	case
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	famous people	ten votes each					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, but only famous singers, not famous actors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 singers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 singers	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 singers	advmod
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 singers	amod
6	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 actors	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 actors	advmod
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 actors	amod
10	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singers	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's one person, one vote, famous or not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 person	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 person	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 person	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 person	nummod
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vote	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 vote	nummod
9	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 person	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 famous	punct
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 person	amod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 not	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 famous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	one person and one vote					tree rules

Option 4

No, famous people are not allowed to vote at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 allowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 allowed	punct
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 allowed	advmod
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 vote	mark
9	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allowed	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 vote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		famous people					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	famous people not said here			all			vn dub-29.3.2 «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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