Exam question 2 · Protests, petitions and young activists

Identify the person by whom a child too young to vote is represented in a national parliament.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, vote, represent · To what, where: person, child

This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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	3 person	det
3	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 represented	nsubj:pass
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 young	advmod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 vote	mark
11	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 young	xcomp
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 represented	aux:pass
13	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 whom	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 parliament	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 parliament	det
16	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 parliament	amod
17	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 represented	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the person		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	vote	to-infinitive				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	represent	present · passive		a child	in a national parliament	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in parliament=Attribute

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

No person, until the child attains voting age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attains	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 person	punct
4	until	until	ADP	_	6 child	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 person	nmod
7	attains	attain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	voting	voting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 age	amod
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	present	no person until the child	voting age					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme

Option 2

The head teacher of the child's school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	compound
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 school	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 school	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 child	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	nmod

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

Option 3

The member of parliament chosen by the child's parents only, at the election preceding the child's birth

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 member	det
2	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 election	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 parliament	case
4	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 member	nmod
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 election	csubj
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 parents	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parents	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 child	case
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chosen	obl
11	only	only	ADV	_	5 chosen	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 election	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 election	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 election	det
15	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 election	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 birth	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 child	case
20	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 preceding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	participle						by the child's parents	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	precede	gerund	the election not said here	the child's birth					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme birth=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The member of parliament for the area in which the child resides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 member	det
2	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 parliament	case
4	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 member	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 area	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 area	det
7	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 member	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 resides	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 resides	nsubj
12	resides	reside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 area	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reside	present	the child			the area			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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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