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Test 5 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run

A leader wants to ignore a court's decision and change the rules alone. Why would the three-part split of power stop this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: leader, court, part split · What happens: want, ignore, change, decide, stop, split · To what, where: decision, rules, this, power

This is test 5 · ★ 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 leader wants to ignore a court's decision and change the rules alone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ignore	mark
5	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 decision	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 court	case
9	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ignore	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 change	cc
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ignore	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rules	det
13	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 change	obj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 change	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a leader						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ignore not said to happen	to-infinitive	a leader not said here	a court's decision					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Theme
3	change	infinitive	a leader not said here	the rules				alone property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
4	decide		a court						nom decision «act transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: Why would the three-part split of power stop this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stop	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 split	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 part	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 three	punct
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 split	compound
7	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 power	case
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 split	nmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stop	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the part split of power	this					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality this=Eventuality
2	split			power					nom split «act transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The courts and lawmakers can check the leader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 courts	det
2	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 check	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lawmakers	cc
4	lawmakers	lawmaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 courts	conj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 check	aux
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leader	det
8	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	can	the courts and lawmakers	the leader					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme

Option 2

Judges always agree with the leader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agree	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 agree	advmod
3	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 leader	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leader	det
6	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Judges					with the leader; always property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with leader=Co-Agent

Option 3

The leader has much more power than everyone else

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	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 power	amod
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 power	nmod
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 everyone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the leader	more power				than everyone	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 4

The constitution lets leaders do anything

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	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lets	obj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	the constitution	leaders					tree rules
2	do	infinitive	leaders not said here	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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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