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title: Ascertain the period within which candidates in Ireland are required… — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the period within which candidates in Ireland are required to remove their election posters following the poll. Exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 4 · Adverts, slogans and polls

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Ascertain the period within which candidates in Ireland are required to remove their election posters following the poll.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, candidates · **What happens:** ascertain, require, remove, follow, post · **To what, where:** period, candidates, election posters, poll

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 12 «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the period within which candidates in Ireland are required to remove their election posters following the poll.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	appos	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	posters	poster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the period |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic |
| 2 | **require** | present · passive |  | candidates in Ireland |  |  |  | within the period | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **remove** | to-infinitive |  | candidates's election posters |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poster=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  | the poll |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poll=Theme |
| 5 | **post** |  | candidates *= candidate* |  |  |  |  |  | nom poster «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Prior to the poll itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:e4:o1:1
# text = Prior to the poll itself
1	Prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Within one week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:e4:o2:1
# text = Within one week
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Within one full year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:e4:o3:1
# text = Within one full year
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Within one single hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:e4:o4:1
# text = Within one single hour
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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