Exam question 2 · School councils and class reps

Identify the principal reason for which elections are conducted by secret ballot.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, secret ballot · What happens: identify, conduct · To what, where: principal reason, elections

This is exam question 2 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 conducted	obl
7	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 conducted	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 conducted	aux:pass
9	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 ballot	case
11	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ballot	amod
12	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conducted	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	conduct	present · passive	secret ballot	elections				for the principal reason	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

So that only acquaintances of the candidates may vote, others being unable to see the ballot paper

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	9 vote	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 vote	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 acquaintances	advmod
4	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 vote	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 candidates	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 candidates	det
7	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 acquaintances	nmod
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 vote	aux
9	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unable	punct
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 unable	nsubj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 unable	cop
13	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vote	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unable	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 paper	det
17	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 paper	compound
18	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vote	may	acquaintances of the candidates			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	others		unable property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	others not said here	the ballot paper		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paper=Stimulus
4	acquaint			the candidates		nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

So that the candidates may not cast a vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 cast	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cast	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 candidates	det
4	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cast	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cast	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cast	advmod
7	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 vote	det
9	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cast	may	the candidates	a vote					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Product

Option 3

So that the count may be concluded more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 concluded	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 concluded	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 count	det
4	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concluded	nsubj:pass
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 concluded	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 concluded	aux:pass
7	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 slowly	advmod
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 concluded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	may · passive		the count				slowly property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So that each voter may choose freely, without pressure from those observing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 choose	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 choose	mark
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 voter	det
4	voter	voter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 choose	aux
6	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	freely	freely	ADV	_	6 choose	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pressure	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 pressure	case
10	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 those	case
12	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 pressure	nmod
13	observing	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 those	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	may	each voter					without pressure from those; freely property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	observe	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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