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title: A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud." Wh… — Elections and voting: ballots, countin… · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud." What does it really mean? Test 9 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 cho
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# Test 9 · Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning

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A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud." What does it really mean?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid, landslide, winner · **What happens:** say, bury, mean · **To what, where:** landslide, winner, mud · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t9:1
# text = A kid on TikTok says, "landslide = the winner got buried in mud."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	landslide	landslide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	winner	winner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a kid on TikTok | landslide |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent landslide=Topic |
| 2 | **bury** *in a quote* | past · passive | landslide *not said here* | the winner |  | mud |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mud=Destination |

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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:* What does it really mean?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t9:2
# text = What does it really mean?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | winner |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Winning by one single vote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t9:o1:1
# text = Winning by one single vote
1	Winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by one single vote | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An election held in the mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t9:o2:1
# text = An election held in the mountains
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | participle · passive |  | a election |  | the mountains |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in mountain=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Winning by a very big amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t9:o3:1
# text = Winning by a very big amount
1	Winning	win	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by a big amount | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Losing by a very big amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning:t9:o4:1
# text = Losing by a very big amount
1	Losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by a big amount | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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