Test 1 · Votes for women

sis says women always had the vote it's just old movies making stuff up

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sis, women · What happens: say, have, be, make up · To what, where: vote, old movies, stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

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

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vote	det
7	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 movies	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 movies	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 movies	advmod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 movies	amod
12	movies	movie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	parataxis
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 had	advcl
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 making	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 making	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	sis			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	women	the vote	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient
3	is a	present	sis	old movies		tree rules
4	make up	gerund	women not said here	stuff		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stuff=Pivot

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

No, women still cannot vote anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 vote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vote	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	7 vote	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 vote	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 vote	advmod
7	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 vote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not vote	can	women				still	anywhere property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, since the Romans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 Romans	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	5 Romans	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Romans	det
5	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, they had to campaign for it, and it took until 1893 even for the first country

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 campaign	mark
6	campaign	campaign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 campaign	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
13	until	until	ADP	_	14 1893	case
14	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 took	obl
15	even	even	ADV	_	19 country	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 country	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 country	amod
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	campaign				for campaign	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Patient
2	take	past	it				until 1893	for the first country	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for country=Beneficiary

Option 4

Yes, they always voted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 voted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 voted	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 voted	advmod
5	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

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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