Test 4 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run
Which is true about a democracy?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 democracy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 democracy | det |
| 6 | democracy | democracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about a democracy; true property | tree rules |
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 soldiers are allowed to vote
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 soldiers | advmod |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 vote | mark |
| 6 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · passive | soldiers | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | soldiers not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The leader's child always rules next
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leader | det |
| 2 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 leader | case |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 rules | advmod |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 rules | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Elections happen only when the leader wants them to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elections | election | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 happen | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 wants | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leader | det |
| 6 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 happen | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wants | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wants | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Elections | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the leader | Elections = election | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
People can vote out leaders they do not like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vote | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 vote | aux |
| 3 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 vote | compound:prt |
| 5 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vote | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 like | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leaders | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote out | can | People | leaders | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | People | leaders not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot leader=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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