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title: What would happen if a president had no Congress or courts to check… — President and Prime Minister, White Ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a president had no Congress or courts to check him? Test 6 · ★ 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 wa
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# Test 6 · ★ · President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street

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What would happen if a president had no Congress or courts to check him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** president · **What happens:** happen, have, check · **To what, where:** Congress, president

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 5 «President and Prime Minister, White House and Downing Street» 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/5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a president had no Congress or courts to check him?
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	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 president | no Congress or courts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent congress=Patient |
| 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | a president *not said here* | president |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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Voters would have more say than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t6:o1:1
# text = Voters would have more say 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	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | Voters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | more |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Laws would be checked twice as carefully, since he would do it himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t6:o2:1
# text = Laws would be checked twice as carefully, since he would do it himself
1	Laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | would · passive |  | Laws |  |  |  | carefully, twice *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | would | he | it |  |  |  | himself *= he* *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing would change in how the country is run

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t6:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change in how the country is run
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | present · passive |  | the country |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One person could make rules without anyone able to stop bad ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:5-president-and-prime-minister-white-house-and-downing-street:t6:o4:1
# text = One person could make rules without anyone able to stop bad ones
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | One person | rules |  |  |  | without anyone; able *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product |
| 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | rules *not said here* | bad ones |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality |

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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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