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Test 6 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run

A 15-year-old in Canada wants to vote for the national parliament. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: year old · What happens: want, vote, happen

This is test 6 · ★ 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 15-year-old in Canada wants to vote for the national parliament.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 old	det
2	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 15	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wants	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Canada	case
8	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl
9	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 vote	mark
11	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wants	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 parliament	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 parliament	det
14	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 parliament	amod
15	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vote	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a year old						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	vote not said to happen	to-infinitive	a year old not said here					for the national parliament goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for parliament=Goal

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 happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She can vote but only in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vote	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	aux
3	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 secret	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 secret	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 secret	case
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vote	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	can	She						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She is too young; the voting age is 18

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 18	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 age	det
7	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 age	compound
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 18	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 18	cop
10	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 young	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					young property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the voting age	18					tree rules

Option 3

She can vote if her parents agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vote	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	aux
3	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 agree	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 agree	nsubj
7	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	can	She						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	present	her parents						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She is old enough to vote in every election

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 old	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 old	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 vote	mark
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 old	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 election	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 election	det
9	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					enough, old property	tree rules
2	vote	to-infinitive	She not said here			every election			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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