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title: "Anyone who votes for that lot is thick" — what is the fairer view? — Arguing politely and never calling names · tree and pragmatics
description: "Anyone who votes for that lot is thick" — what is the fairer view? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 9 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names

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"Anyone who votes for that lot is thick" — what is the fairer view?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Anyone, fairer view · **What happens:** vote, be

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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/39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t9:1
# text = "Anyone who votes for that lot is thick" — what is the fairer view?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	votes	vote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | for that lot *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for lot=Goal |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Anyone |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the fairer view |  |  |  |  |  | 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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People vote for many reasons and can be kind and clever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t9:o1:1
# text = People vote for many reasons and can be kind and clever
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | present | People |  |  |  |  | for many reasons *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for reason=Goal |
| 2 | **is** | can | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only stupid people vote at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t9:o2:1
# text = Only stupid people vote at all
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | present | stupid people |  |  | all |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Voting shows how clever you are

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t9:o3:1
# text = Voting shows how clever you are
1	Voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Voting |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Everyone who votes that way is exactly the same kind of person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:39-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names:t9:o4:1
# text = Everyone who votes that way is exactly the same kind of person
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	votes	vote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | present |  | that way |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Everyone | the same kind |  |  |  | of person; exactly *property* | tree rules |

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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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