Exam question 2 · Olympiad: fair votes, close counts and who decides ★★★

Whereas a candidate leads by fourteen votes to ten with eight ballots yet to be counted, identify the least number of the remaining ballots the leader must receive to be assured of victory.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: candidate, you, leader · What happens: lead, count, identify, remain, ballot, receive · To what, where: least number

This is exam question 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	4 leads	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 candidate	det
3	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leads	nsubj
4	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 counted	advcl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 votes	case
6	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 votes	nummod
7	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leads	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 ten	case
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 votes	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 ballots	case
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ballots	nummod
12	ballots	ballot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leads	obl
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 counted	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	16 counted	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 counted	aux:pass
16	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 identify	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 counted	punct
18	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 number	det
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 number	amod
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 identify	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 the	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 number	nmod
24	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 ballots	nsubj
25	ballots	ballot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 the	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leader	det
27	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 receive	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 receive	aux
29	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ballots	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	32 assured	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 assured	aux:pass
32	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 receive	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 victory	case
34	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 assured	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	a candidate			by fourteen votes to ten; with eight ballots	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by vote=Destination
2	count	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here		yet		vn matter-91 «NP V»
3	identify	imperative	you not said here	the least number of the			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
4	remain	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ballot	present					tree rules
6	receive	must	the leader				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	assure	to-infinitive · passive	the leader not said here			of victory	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: of victory=Topic

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

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	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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