Test 10 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run

how come no one can see who i voted for

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: one · What happens: come, see, vote for

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 voted	nsubj
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 voted	nsubj
9	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	9 voted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	come	present	no one not said here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	can	no one	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	vote for	past		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

Only the winner can see the votes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 winner	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winner	det
3	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 votes	det
7	votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	the winner	the votes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus

Option 2

The teacher reads them all at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	nsubj
3	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reads	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	the teacher	them = they			at the end		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent they=Theme at end=Value

Option 3

Votes are thrown away after counting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thrown	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 thrown	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 counting	mark
6	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thrown	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	present · passive		Votes				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	count	gerund							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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

It is a secret ballot, so nobody can see how a person voted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ballot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ballot	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ballot	det
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ballot	amod
5	ballot	ballot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ballot	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 voted	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 voted	nsubj
14	voted	vote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a secret ballot	tree rules
2	see	can	nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	vote	participle	a person		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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