Test 2 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run
A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each person marks. Which rule is being broken?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: powerful man · What happens: stand, watch, break · To what, where: person marks, rule
This is test 2 · ★ 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: A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each person marks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 stands | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 booth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 booth | det |
| 8 | voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 booth | compound |
| 9 | booth | booth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watches | cc |
| 11 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stands | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 watches | obj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 marks | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marks | compound |
| 15 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 watches | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a powerful man | to the voting booth; next property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | present | a powerful man not said here | each person marks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme mark=Attribute |
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: Which rule is being broken?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 rule | det |
| 2 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | which rule | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The constitution's date
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 constitution | det |
| 2 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 date | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 constitution | case |
| 4 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The secret ballot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ballot | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ballot | amod |
| 3 | ballot | ballot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The age to vote
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 age | det |
| 2 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 vote | mark |
| 4 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 age | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | to-infinitive | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The number of parties
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 parties | case |
| 4 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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