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title: A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each… — Laws, voting and how a country is run · tree and pragmatics
description: A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each person marks. Which rule is being broken? Test 2 · ★ 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; Mov
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# Test 2 · ★ · Laws, voting and how a country is run

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A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each person marks. Which rule is being broken?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** powerful man · **What happens:** stand, watch, break · **To what, where:** person marks, rule

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 96 «Laws, voting and how a country is run» of the world 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/world/96-laws-voting-government/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each person marks.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:t2:1
# text = A powerful man stands next to the voting booth and watches what each person marks.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	booth	booth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | a powerful man |  |  |  |  | to the voting booth; next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | present | a powerful man *not said here* | each person marks |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme mark=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which rule is being broken?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:t2:2
# text = Which rule is being broken?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | which rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The constitution's date

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:t2:o1:1
# text = The constitution's date
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	constitution	constitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The secret ballot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:t2:o2:1
# text = The secret ballot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ballot	ballot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The age to vote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:t2:o3:1
# text = The age to vote
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The number of parties

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:96-laws-voting-government:t2:o4:1
# text = The number of parties
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	parties	party	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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