Test 6 · ★ · President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street

What would happen if a president had no Congress or courts to check him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: president · What happens: happen, have, check · To what, where: Congress, president

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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 president	det
6	president	president	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 Congress	det
9	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 courts	cc
11	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Congress	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 check	mark
13	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 check	obj
15	?	?	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 president	no Congress or courts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congress=Patient
3	check	to-infinitive	a president not said here	president	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

Voters would have more say 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 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	ccomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	fixed
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Voters						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	more						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Laws would be checked twice as carefully, since he would do it himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 checked	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 checked	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 checked	aux:pass
4	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 checked	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 carefully	advmod
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 checked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 checked	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 do	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	would · passive		Laws				carefully, twice property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	do	would	he	it				himself = he obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Nothing would change in how the country is run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 run	mark
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 run	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 run	aux:pass
9	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	present · passive		the country					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One person could make rules without anyone able to stop bad ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 person	nummod
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 anyone	case
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 make	obl
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	One person	rules				without anyone; able property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product
2	stop	to-infinitive	rules not said here	bad ones					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality

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