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description: Identify the principal reason for which the secrecy of the ballot is maintained. Exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Exam question 1 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

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Identify the principal reason for which the secrecy of the ballot is maintained.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, maintain · **To what, where:** principal reason, secrecy

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2 «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» 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/2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal reason for which the secrecy of the ballot is maintained.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ballot	ballot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	maintained	maintain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |
| 2 | **maintain** | present · passive |  | the secrecy of the ballot |  |  |  | for the principal reason | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The protection of the voter from intimidation and from inducement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:e1:o1:1
# text = The protection of the voter from intimidation and from inducement
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voter	voter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	intimidation	intimidation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	inducement	inducement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **protect** |  |  | the voter from intimidation and inducement |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The prevention of candidates from learning of their own candidacy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:e1:o2:1
# text = The prevention of candidates from learning of their own candidacy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prevention	prevention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	candidacy	candidacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** |  |  | candidates from learning of candidates's own candidacy |  |  |  |  | nom prevention «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The concealment of the total number of votes cast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:e1:o3:1
# text = The concealment of the total number of votes cast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	concealment	concealment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | participle |  | votes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conceal** |  |  | the total number of votes |  |  |  |  | nom concealment «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The acceleration of the counting process

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:e1:o4:1
# text = The acceleration of the counting process
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	acceleration	acceleration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	counting	counting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	process	process	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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