Exam question 4 · Laws, voting and how a country is run

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the sharing of power between lawmakers, the government and the courts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, sharing

This is exam question 4 of lesson 96 «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sharing	det
13	sharing	sharing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 power	case
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sharing	nmod
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 lawmakers	case
17	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 power	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 government	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 government	det
20	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lawmakers	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 courts	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 courts	det
23	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lawmakers	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the sharing of power between lawmakers and the government and the courts		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sharing=Experiencer

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

The lawmakers judge every case in court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lawmakers	det
2	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 judge	nsubj
3	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 case	det
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 court	case
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	present	the lawmakers	every case		court			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent case=Value

Option 2

The government is free of every check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 government	det
2	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 free	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 check	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 check	det
7	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the government					of every check; free property	tree rules

Option 3

The courts make all the laws alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 courts	det
2	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 laws	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 laws	det
6	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the courts	all laws				alone property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Each can check the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 check	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 check	aux
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 others	det
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	can	Each	the others					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme

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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