Test 11 · ★★ · Congress and Parliament: how a law is made

What would happen if the Lords and the Commons never agreed and nothing could end the ping-pong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Commons, nothing · What happens: happen, not agree, end · To what, where: Lords, ping pong

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Congress and Parliament: how a law is made» 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	_	6 Lords	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lords	det
6	Lords	Lord	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 agreed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Commons	det
9	Commons	common	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 agreed	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 agreed	advmod
11	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 end	cc
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 end	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 end	aux
15	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 agreed	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pong	det
17	ping	ping	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pong	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 ping	punct
19	pong	pong	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would		the Lords	tree rules
2	not agree speech: agree	past	the Commons		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	end	could	nothing	the ping pong	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pong=Eventuality

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

The bill would become law twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bill	det
2	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the bill	law				twice property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The bill would be sent to the US Congress

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bill	det
2	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Congress	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Congress	det
8	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Congress	compound
9	Congress	Congress	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	would · passive		the bill	the US Congress				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to congress=Destination

Option 3

The Lords would become the Commons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lords	det
2	Lords	Lord	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Commons	det
6	Commons	common	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the Lords	the Commons					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bill could be stuck forever, which is why the elected Commons usually gets its way in the end

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bill	det
2	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stuck	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 stuck	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 why	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	cop
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stuck	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Commons	det
12	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Commons	amod
13	Commons	Commons	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gets	nsubj
14	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 gets	advmod
15	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	ccomp
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gets	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	the bill			forever, stuck property	tree rules
2	is	present				why property	tree rules
3	elect	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	the elected Commons	Commons's way	in the end	usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus

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