Exam question 2 · Votes for women

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the methods of the suffragettes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: methods

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 methods	det
10	methods	method	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 suffragettes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 suffragettes	det
13	suffragettes	suffragette	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 methods	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the methods of the suffragettes				of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules

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

They confined themselves solely to petitions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confined	nsubj
2	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 confined	obj
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	2 confined	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 petitions	case
6	petitions	petition	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	past	They	themselves = they		petitions		solely property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to petition=Destination

Option 2

They took no action whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 action	det
4	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	They	no action				whatsoever property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They employed direct actions including chaining themselves to railings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 employed	nsubj
2	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 actions	amod
4	actions	action	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 employed	obj
5	including	including	ADP	_	6 chaining	mark
6	chaining	chain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 employed	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 chaining	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 railings	case
9	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past	They	direct actions					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme
2	chain	gerund	They not said here	actions = action				to railings	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to railing=Co-Patient

Option 4

They campaigned exclusively in New Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 campaigned	nsubj
2	campaigned	campaign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	2 campaigned	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Zealand	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zealand	flat
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 campaigned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	campaign	past	They			New Zealand		exclusively property	tree rules

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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