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title: What would happen if a country had just one party allowed? — Parties: teams with ideas · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a country had just one party allowed? Test 7 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 wrong.
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# Test 7 · Parties: teams with ideas

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What would happen if a country had just one party allowed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** country · **What happens:** happen, have, allow · **To what, where:** one party

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This is test 7 of lesson 4 «Parties: teams with ideas» 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/4-parties-teams-with-ideas/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t7:1
# text = What would happen if a country had just one party allowed?
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	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a country | one party |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient |
| 3 | **allow** | participle |  | one party *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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Voters would have more choices than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t7:o1:1
# text = Voters would have more choices than before
1	Voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	choices	choice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Voters | more choices |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every idea in the country would be heard equally and fairly anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t7:o2:1
# text = Every idea in the country would be heard equally and fairly anyway
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would · passive |  | every idea in the country |  |  |  | anyway, equally *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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

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Voters would have no real choice between different ideas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t7:o3:1
# text = Voters would have no real choice between different ideas
1	Voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Voters | no real choice |  |  |  | between different ideas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Elections would become more exciting to watch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:4-parties-teams-with-ideas:t7:o4:1
# text = Elections would become more exciting to watch
1	Elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Elections |  |  |  |  | exciting *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Elections *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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