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title: What would happen if a country decided asylum claims much faster? — Immigration and borders · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a country decided asylum claims much faster? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Immigration and borders

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What would happen if a country decided asylum claims much faster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** country · **What happens:** happen, decide · **To what, where:** asylum claims

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Immigration and borders» 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/19-immigration-and-borders/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:t11:1
# text = What would happen if a country decided asylum claims much faster?
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	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	asylum	asylum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **decide** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a country | asylum claims |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent claim=Topic |

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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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Every single claim would be refused straight away, without a hearing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:t11:o1:1
# text = Every single claim would be refused straight away, without a hearing
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | would · passive |  | every single claim |  |  |  | away *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody would ever ask for asylum again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:t11:o2:1
# text = Nobody would ever ask for asylum again
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	asylum	asylum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | would | Nobody |  |  |  | ever; again | for asylum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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People would wait less time in hotels for an answer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:t11:o3:1
# text = People would wait less time in hotels for an answer
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hotels	hotel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | would | People |  |  | hotels | time | for a answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hotel=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Channel would close to boats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:19-immigration-and-borders:t11:o4:1
# text = The Channel would close to boats
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | would | the Channel |  | boats |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boat=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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