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title: What would happen if every Security Council member voted yes except… — Why wars happen and why they are hard… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if every Security Council member voted yes except one permanent member, which used its veto? Test 4 of lesson 23 «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 4 · Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and…

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What would happen if every Security Council member voted yes except one permanent member, which used its veto?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Council member, one permanent member, member · **What happens:** happen, vote, use, veto · **To what, where:** veto

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This is test 4 of lesson 23 «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» 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/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato:t4:1
# text = What would happen if every Security Council member voted yes except one permanent member, which used its veto?
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	_	9	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
6	Security	Security	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Council	Council	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	_
11	except	except	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	permanent	permanent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	veto	veto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	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 | **vote** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | every Council member |  |  |  |  | except one permanent member | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** | past | one permanent member | member's veto |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veto=Patient |
| 4 | **veto** |  | member |  |  |  |  |  | nom veto «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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The decision would pass anyway, because most voted yes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato:t4:o1:1
# text = The decision would pass anyway, because most voted yes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nsubj	_	_
9	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | would | the decision |  |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vote** | past | most |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The decision would be blocked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato:t4:o2:1
# text = The decision would be blocked
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	blocked	block	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **block** | would · passive |  | the decision |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The vote would be counted again until it passed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato:t4:o3:1
# text = The vote would be counted again until it passed
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | would · passive |  | the vote |  |  | again |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | vote |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That country would be thrown out of the UN at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato:t4:o4:1
# text = That country would be thrown out of the UN at once
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	UN	UN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | would · passive | the UN | that country |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at once=Destination |

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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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