Exam question 1 · Votes for women

Identify the first self-governing nation to extend the franchise to women in national elections.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, govern, extend · To what, where: first governing nation, franchise, women, national elections

This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Votes for women» of the history 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nation	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 nation	amod
4	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 governing	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 self	punct
6	governing	govern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 nation	amod
7	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 extend	mark
9	extend	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 franchise	det
11	franchise	franchise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 extend	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 women	case
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 extend	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 elections	case
15	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 elections	amod
16	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 extend	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the first governing nation			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nation=Theme
2	govern	gerund					vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	extend	to-infinitive	you not said here	the franchise	women	national elections	vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent franchise=Theme to woman=Recipient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The United States

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 States	det
2	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 States	amod
3	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

New Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zealand	flat
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The United Kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Kingdom	det
2	United	United	PROPN	_	3 Kingdom	flat
3	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Swiss Confederation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Confederation	det
2	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Confederation	amod
3	Confederation	confederation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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