Test 5 · ★★ · Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Irel…

What would happen if Australia stopped compulsory voting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Australia · What happens: happen, stop · To what, where: compulsory voting

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Around the English-speaking world: Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand» 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 stopped	mark
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	compulsory	compulsory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 voting	compound
8	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	Australia	compulsory voting					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector voting=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 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would be forced to vote twice instead, once in the morning and once at night

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 forced	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forced	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 forced	aux:pass
4	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 vote	mark
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forced	xcomp
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 vote	advmod
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 vote	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 once	punct
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 vote	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 once	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 once	cc
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 once	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	would · passive		Everyone					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	vote	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here				night	instead, once, twice property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The democracy sausage would become illegal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sausage	det
2	democracy	democracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sausage	compound
3	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	illegal	illegal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 become	xcomp

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

Option 3

The election would no longer have any candidates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 election	det
2	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 candidates	det
8	candidates	candidate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the election	any candidates				long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candidate=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer people might vote, so the result might show fewer people's views

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vote	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vote	aux
4	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 show	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 show	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 result	det
8	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 show	aux
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 vote	advcl
11	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 views	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 people	case
14	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	vote	might	Fewer people		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	show	might	the result	fewer people's views	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent view=Recipient
3	view		fewer people		nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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