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description: Your Aussie mate says, "Me nan voted early at the arvo booth, then had a sausage." ("Arvo" means afternoon.) What kind of voting did nan do? Test 8 of lesson 2 «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 8 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Your Aussie mate says, "Me nan voted early at the arvo booth, then had a sausage." ("Arvo" means afternoon.) What kind of voting did nan do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Aussie mate, Me nan, Arvo, nan · **What happens:** say, vote, have, mean, do · **To what, where:** arvo booth, sausage, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your Aussie mate says, "Me nan voted early at the arvo booth, then had a sausage."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:1
# text = Your Aussie mate says, "Me nan voted early at the arvo booth, then had a sausage."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Aussie	aussie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Me	me	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your Aussie mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **vote** *in a quote* | past | Me nan |  |  | the arvo booth |  | early *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past |  | a sausage |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* ("Arvo" means afternoon.)

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:2
# text = ("Arvo" means afternoon.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Arvo	Arvo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Arvo |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What kind of voting did nan do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:3
# text = What kind of voting did nan do?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	nan	nan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | nan | what kind of voting |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Early voting, before the main election day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:o1:1
# text = Early voting, before the main election day
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Postal voting, with a sausage in the envelope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:o2:1
# text = Postal voting, with a sausage in the envelope
1	Postal	postal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	envelope	envelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Double voting, once early and once on the day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:o3:1
# text = Double voting, once early and once on the day
1	Double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No voting, because early votes are thrown out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t8:o4:1
# text = No voting, because early votes are thrown out
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw out** | present · passive | no voting *not said here* | early votes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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