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description: Identify the principal function of Prime Minister's Questions. Exam question 4 of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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 wro
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# Exam question 4 · President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street

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Identify the principal function of Prime Minister's Questions.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal function

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:e4:1
# text = Identify the principal function of Prime Minister's Questions.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	7	compound	_	_
7	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Questions	Question	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 principal function of Prime Minister's Questions |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent function=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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The selection of candidates for the forthcoming election

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:e4:o1:1
# text = The selection of candidates for the forthcoming election
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	candidates	candidate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	forthcoming	forthcoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** |  |  | candidates for the forthcoming election |  |  |  |  | nom selection «act transitive»: of=patient |

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

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The public examination of the head of government by Members of Parliament

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:e4:o2:1
# text = The public examination of the head of government by Members of Parliament
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** |  | Members of Parliament | the head of government |  |  |  |  | nom examination «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The formal signature of bills by the sovereign in the presence of Parliament

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:e4:o3:1
# text = The formal signature of bills by the sovereign in the presence of Parliament
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	signature	signature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sign** |  |  | bills by the sovereign in the presence of Parliament |  |  |  |  | nom signature «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **bill** |  | the sovereign in the presence of Parliament |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: by=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The counting of ballot papers in the presence of observers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:e4:o4:1
# text = The counting of ballot papers in the presence of observers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	counting	counting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ballot	ballot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	observers	observer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** |  | ballot papers in the presence of observers |  |  |  |  |  | nom counting «act intransitive»: of=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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