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title: If there were no taxes, what would happen to free schools and ambula… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: If there were no taxes, what would happen to free schools and ambulances? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 31 «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Votes, parties and the people in charge

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If there were no taxes, what would happen to free schools and ambulances?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** taxes · **What happens:** be, happen · **To what, where:** free schools

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 31 «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge:t5:1
# text = If there were no taxes, what would happen to free schools and ambulances?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no taxes *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | would | no taxes | free schools and ambulances |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They would be free because hospitals are rich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge:t5:o1:1
# text = They would be free because hospitals are rich
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | They |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | hospitals |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would carry on exactly the same as they do now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge:t5:o2:1
# text = They would carry on exactly the same as they do now
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry on** | would | They |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | they |  |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They would not exist, because taxes pay for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge:t5:o3:1
# text = They would not exist, because taxes pay for them
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **exist** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | present | taxes |  |  |  |  | for them *= they* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They would be paid for by the Prime Minister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge:t5:o4:1
# text = They would be paid for by the Prime Minister
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would · passive | the Prime Minister | They |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |

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**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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