Exam question 4 · Votes for women

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the first woman to hold office as prime minister.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern, hold · To what, where: response, first woman, office

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concerning	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hold	mark
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 woman	acl
15	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 minister	case
17	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 minister	amod
18	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the first woman		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer
4	hold	to-infinitive	the established facts not said here	office	as prime minister	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme

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

Kate Sheppard of New Zealand, in eighteen hundred and ninety-three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sheppard	compound
2	Sheppard	Sheppard	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sheppard	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hundred	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hundred	case
8	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Sheppard	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ninety	cc
11	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	conj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ninety	punct
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, in nineteen hundred and sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sirimavo	Sirimavo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Bandaranaike	Bandaranaike	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sirimavo	flat
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Sri	case
4	Sri	Sri	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sirimavo	nmod
5	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sri	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hundred	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hundred	case
8	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Sirimavo	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sixty	cc
11	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Margaret Thatcher of Britain, in nineteen hundred and sixty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Thatcher	Thatcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Margaret	flat
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Margaret	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hundred	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hundred	case
7	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Margaret	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sixty	cc
10	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj

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

Option 4

Emmeline Pankhurst of Britain, in nineteen hundred and eighteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Emmeline	Emmeline	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pankhurst	compound
2	Pankhurst	Pankhurst	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Britain	case
4	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pankhurst	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hundred	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hundred	case
7	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Pankhurst	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eighteen	cc
10	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj

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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