Test 3 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run
Lawmakers vote in favour of a bill. What has the bill become?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lawmakers · What happens: vote, favour, become · To what, where: favour, bill
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Lawmakers vote in favour of a bill.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lawmakers | lawmaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vote | nsubj |
| 2 | vote | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 favour | case |
| 4 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vote | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bill | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bill | det |
| 7 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 favour | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vote | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | present | Lawmakers | favour of a bill | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | favour | a bill | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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: What has the bill become?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 become | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bill | det |
| 4 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 become | nsubj |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A constitution
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 constitution | det |
| 2 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A law
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
An election
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 election | det |
| 2 | election | election | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A court case
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 2 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 case | compound |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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