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title: What would happen if a country let only rich people vote? — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a country let only rich people vote? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» 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 5 · ★ · Who can vote, and why children cannot

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What would happen if a country let only rich people vote?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** country, rich people · **What happens:** happen, let, vote · **To what, where:** rich people

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» 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/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a country let only rich people vote?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a country | rich people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vote** | infinitive | rich people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Everyone would be equally represented anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t5:o1:1
# text = Everyone would be equally represented anyway
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | would · passive |  | Everyone |  |  |  | anyway, equally *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Leaders would mostly listen to the rich and others would have no say

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t5:o2:1
# text = Leaders would mostly listen to the rich and others would have no say
1	Leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	say	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | would | Leaders |  |  |  |  | to the rich; mostly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rich=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | would | others | no say |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Poor people would be given two votes each instead, to make it fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t5:o3:1
# text = Poor people would be given two votes each instead, to make it fair
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would · passive |  | Poor people |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient vote=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Elections would stop being needed at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t5:o4:1
# text = Elections would stop being needed at all
1	Elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Elections |  |  | all |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | gerund · passive | Elections *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |

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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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