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title: Ascertain the maximum number of terms which a President of the Unite… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the maximum number of terms which a President of the United States may serve. Exam question 3 of lesson 96 «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Exam question 3 · Laws, voting and how a country is run

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Ascertain the maximum number of terms which a President of the United States may serve.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, President · **What happens:** ascertain, serve · **To what, where:** maximum number, terms

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 96 «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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/world/96-laws-voting-government/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the maximum number of terms which a President of the United States may serve.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	maximum	maximum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	President	President	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the maximum number of terms |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **serve** | may | a President of the United States | terms |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Attribute |

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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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Two terms of four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:e3:o1:1
# text = Two terms of four years
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **term** |  |  | four years |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One term of eight years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:e3:o2:1
# text = One term of eight years
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **term** |  |  | eight years |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three terms of four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:e3:o3:1
# text = Three terms of four years
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **term** |  |  | four years |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An unlimited number of terms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:e3:o4:1
# text = An unlimited number of terms
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unlimited	unlimited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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