Exam question 1 · Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★
It is given that thirty electors cast votes for three candidates, who receive twelve, ten and eight votes respectively. Determine the minimum number of votes requisite for more than half.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: thirty electors, three candidates, you · What happens: give, cast, receive, determine · To what, where: It, votes, twelve votes, minimum number
This is exam question 1 of lesson 41 «Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that thirty electors cast votes for three candidates, who receive twelve, ten and eight votes respectively.
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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 cast | mark |
| 5 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 electors | nummod |
| 6 | electors | elector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cast | nsubj |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cast | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 candidates | case |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 candidates | nummod |
| 11 | candidates | candidate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cast | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 receive | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 receive | nsubj |
| 14 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 candidates | acl:relcl |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 votes | nummod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ten | punct |
| 17 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 twelve | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eight | cc |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 twelve | conj |
| 20 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 receive | obj |
| 21 | respectively | respectively | ADV | _ | 20 votes | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cast | past | thirty electors | votes | for three candidates | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vote=Product for candidate=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | receive | present | three candidates | twelve votes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=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.
Sentence 2: Determine the minimum number of votes requisite for more than half.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 requisite | case |
| 6 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 requisite | compound |
| 7 | requisite | requisite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 number | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 half | case |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 half | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 more | fixed |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 requisite | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the minimum number of votes requisite for half | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sixteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Fifteen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Eleven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Twelve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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