Test 3 · School councils and class reps

What would happen if a class voted by hands up and everyone watched their best mate first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class, everyone · What happens: happen, vote up, watch · To what, where: best mate

This is test 3 of lesson 37 «School councils and class reps» 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 voted	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 voted	nsubj
7	voted	vote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 hands	case
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 voted	obl
10	up	up	ADV	_	7 voted	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watched	cc
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 watched	nsubj
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 voted	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mate	nmod:poss
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 mate	amod
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watched	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 watched	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote up a condition, not said to happen	participle	a class		by hands	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	watch	past	everyone	hands's best mate	first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=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

Everyone would vote exactly what they really think, because watching your mates helps you decide

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 vote	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	aux
3	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 vote	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 helps	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 helps	mark
11	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 helps	csubj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mates	nmod:poss
13	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 watching	obj
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 helps	obj
16	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	vote	would	Everyone		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	they		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	watch	gerund		your mates	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme
4	help	present	watching	you	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	decide	infinitive	you not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The vote would become a secret ballot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vote	det
2	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ballot	det
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ballot	amod
7	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the vote	a secret ballot					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nobody would be allowed to vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	aux:pass
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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	would · passive		Nobody					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some would vote to please friends, not for what they think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 vote	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	aux
3	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 please	mark
5	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 vote	xcomp
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 please	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 what	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 vote	conj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
12	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	vote	would	Some		tree rules
2	please	to-infinitive	Some not said here	friends	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
3	think speech: other	present	friends = friend		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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