Exam question 2 · Congress and Parliament: how a law is made

Ascertain the proportion of each chamber of Congress whose assent is requisite for the overriding of a presidential veto.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, assent, requisite · What happens: ascertain, be, override, assent · To what, where: proportion, requisite

This is exam question 2 of lesson 6 «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 proportion	det
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 chamber	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 chamber	det
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 requisite	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Congress	case
8	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chamber	nmod
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 assent	nmod:poss
10	assent	assent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 requisite	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 requisite	cop
12	requisite	requisite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proportion	conj
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 overriding	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 overriding	det
15	overriding	override	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 requisite	acl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 veto	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 veto	det
18	presidential	presidential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 veto	amod
19	veto	veto	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 overriding	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the proportion and requisite		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Topic
2	is a	present	requisite's assent	requisite	of each chamber of Congress	tree rules
3	override	gerund	requisite not said here		of a presidential veto	tree rules
4	assent		requisite			nom assent «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

One-third

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 third	punct
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 One	appos

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

Option 2

One-half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 half	punct
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 One	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two-thirds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thirds	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Two	punct
3	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Three-quarters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 quarters	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Three	punct
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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