Test 7 · Parties: teams with ideas

What would happen if a country had just one party allowed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country · What happens: happen, have, allow · To what, where: one party

This is test 7 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 party	nummod
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 party	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a country	one party	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient
3	allow	participle		one party not said here	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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

Voters would have more choices than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 choices	amod
5	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	fixed
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	3 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Voters	more choices					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 2

Every idea in the country would be heard equally and fairly anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 country	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 country	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idea	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	aux:pass
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	equally	equally	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fairly	cc
11	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	9 equally	conj
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would · passive		every idea in the country				anyway, equally property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Voters would have no real choice between different ideas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Voters	voter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 choice	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 choice	amod
6	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 ideas	case
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ideas	amod
9	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 choice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Voters	no real choice				between different ideas	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 4

Elections would become more exciting to watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 exciting	advmod
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 watch	mark
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exciting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Elections					exciting property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	watch	to-infinitive	Elections not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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