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title: What would happen if losing candidates never accepted fair results? — Elections and voting: ballots, countin… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if losing candidates never accepted fair results? Test 6 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

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What would happen if losing candidates never accepted fair results?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** candidates · **What happens:** happen, lose, not accept · **To what, where:** candidates, fair results

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This is test 6 of lesson 2 «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» 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/2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t6:1
# text = What would happen if losing candidates never accepted fair results?
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	_	5	mark	_	_
5	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund |  | candidates |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candidate=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **accept** | past | candidates *not said here* | fair results |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Handing power to the winner could become a fight instead of peaceful

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t6:o1:1
# text = Handing power to the winner could become a fight instead of peaceful
1	Handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
10	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | gerund |  | power |  | the winner |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent power=Theme to winner=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | could | Handing | a fight |  |  |  | instead peaceful | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing at all would change after elections

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all would change after elections
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  | after elections |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Elections would get faster and calmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t6:o3:1
# text = Elections would get faster and calmer
1	Elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	calmer	calm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Elections |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The losing candidate would win automatically

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t6:o4:1
# text = The losing candidate would win automatically
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **win** | would | the losing candidate |  |  |  |  | automatically *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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