Test 1 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run
Your class votes for a class captain: Mia gets 12 votes, Sam 9 and Leo 7. Who wins under the usual rule?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: class, Mia · What happens: vote, get, win · To what, where: 12 votes, usual rule
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 96 «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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
Sentence 1: Your class votes for a class captain: Mia gets 12 votes, Sam 9 and Leo 7.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 class | nmod:poss |
| 2 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 votes | nsubj |
| 3 | votes | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 captain | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 captain | det |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captain | compound |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 votes | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 gets | punct |
| 9 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 votes | parataxis |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 votes | nummod |
| 12 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gets | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 9 | punct |
| 14 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 gets | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Leo | cc |
| 17 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gets | conj |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Leo | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 votes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | present | Your class | for a class captain goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for captain=Goal | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Mia | 12 votes | 9 Sam obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus |
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.
Sentence 2: Who wins under the usual rule?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 rule | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | amod |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | the usual rule | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Sam, because he is in the middle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 middle | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 middle | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 middle | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 middle | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 middle | det |
| 8 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sam | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sam | the middle | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nobody, because no one got every vote
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 got | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 vote | det |
| 8 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Nobody | every vote | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Mia, because she has the most votes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 votes | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 votes | amod |
| 8 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mia | the most votes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient |
Option 4
Leo, because he has the fewest votes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 has | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 votes | det |
| 7 | fewest | few | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 votes | amod |
| 8 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Leo | the fewest votes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/96-laws-voting-government/t1/