Test 2 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet

What would happen if a national election really were cancelled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, cancel · To what, where: national election

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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	_	10 cancelled	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 election	det
6	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 election	amod
7	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cancelled	nsubj:pass
8	really	really	ADV	_	10 cancelled	advmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cancelled	aux:pass
10	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cancel a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a national election					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Every news channel and the official elections site would say so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 channel	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 channel	compound
3	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 site	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 site	det
6	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elections	amod
7	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 site	compound
8	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 channel	conj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	10 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	every news channel and the elections site						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only one TikTok clip would mention it, because the government would want to keep it quiet

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 clip	nummod
3	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clip	compound
4	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mention	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mention	aux
6	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mention	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 want	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 government	det
11	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mention	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	would	one TikTok clip	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	want	would	the government			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the government not said here	government	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nobody would be told until voting day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would · passive		Nobody			day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

It would only be in the comments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 comments	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 comments	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 comments	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 comments	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 comments	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 comments	det
7	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			the comments			tree rules

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