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title: What would happen if a poll asked only people at one party's rally? — Adverts, slogans and polls · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a poll asked only people at one party's rally? Test 6 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 option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · Adverts, slogans and polls

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would happen if a poll asked only people at one party's rally?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poll · **What happens:** happen, ask · **To what, where:** people, rally

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This is test 6 of lesson 12 «Adverts, slogans and polls» of the politics 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/politics/12-adverts-slogans-and-polls/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a poll asked only people at one party's rally?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	iobj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	rally	rally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a poll |  | people | one party's rally |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It would give a wrong picture, because they are not like the whole country

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:t6:o1:1
# text = It would give a wrong picture, because they are not like the whole country
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | It | a wrong picture |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | they |  |  |  |  | like the whole country | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would be the most accurate poll possible, because those people care most about the election

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:t6:o2:1
# text = It would be the most accurate poll possible, because those people care most about the election
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	care	care	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | It | the accurate poll |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** | present | that people |  |  |  |  | about the election | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about election=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would match the result exactly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:t6:o3:1
# text = It would match the result exactly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **match** | would | It | the result |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would show the other party winning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:12-adverts-slogans-and-polls:t6:o4:1
# text = It would show the other party winning
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	winning	winning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | would | It | the other party winning |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent winning=Recipient |

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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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