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title: What would happen if a national election really were cancelled? — Checking practice: true, false and not… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a national election really were cancelled? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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 right.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet

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What would happen if a national election really were cancelled?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen, cancel · **To what, where:** national election

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Checking practice: true, false and not sure yet» 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/36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t2:1
# text = What would happen if a national election really were cancelled?
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	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	cancelled	cancel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	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 | **cancel** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | a national election |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Every news channel and the official elections site would say so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t2:o1:1
# text = Every news channel and the official elections site would say so
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | every news channel and the elections site |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only one TikTok clip would mention it, because the government would want to keep it quiet

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t2:o2:1
# text = Only one TikTok clip would mention it, because the government would want to keep it quiet
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	TikTok	TikTok	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | would | one TikTok clip | it |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **want** | would | the government |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the government *not said here* | government |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nobody would be told until voting day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t2:o3:1
# text = Nobody would be told until voting day
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | would · passive |  | Nobody |  |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would only be in the comments

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:36-checking-practice-true-false-not-sure:t2:o4:1
# text = It would only be in the comments
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | the comments |  |  | tree rules |

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