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title: Identify the term denoting an arrangement whereby two or more partie… — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the term denoting an arrangement whereby two or more parties jointly conduct the government. Exam question 4 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» 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
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# Exam question 4 · Parties: teams with ideas

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Identify the term denoting an arrangement whereby two or more parties jointly conduct the government.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, term, two parties · **What happens:** identify, denote, conduct · **To what, where:** term, arrangement, government

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:e4:1
# text = Identify the term denoting an arrangement whereby two or more parties jointly conduct the government.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	whereby	whereby	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
11	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	jointly	jointly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	conduct	conduct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **denote** | gerund | the term *not said here* | a arrangement |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arrangement=Topic |
| 3 | **conduct** | present | two parties | the government |  |  |  | jointly, whereby *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Theme |

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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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Independence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:e4:o1:1
# text = Independence
1	Independence	independence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Canvassing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:e4:o2:1
# text = Canvassing
1	Canvassing	canvass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **canvass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |

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

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Coalition

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:e4:o3:1
# text = Coalition
1	Coalition	coalition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Manifesto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:e4:o4:1
# text = Manifesto
1	Manifesto	manifesto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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