Test 10 · Votes for women

In 1918, a British woman of 25 and her mum of 50 go to vote. Who could vote?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: British woman · What happens: go, vote · To what, where: 1918

This is test 10 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

Sentence 1: In 1918, a British woman of 25 and her mum of 50 go to vote.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 1918	case
2	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 go	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 1918	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 25	case
8	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 woman	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mum	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 25	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 50	case
13	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 mum	nmod
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 vote	mark
16	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	a British woman of 25 and woman's mum of 50			1918			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	vote	to-infinitive	a British woman of 25 and woman's mum of 50 not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Who could vote?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 vote	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 vote	aux
3	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 vote	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only the 25-year-old, because she was younger and could read

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 old	det
3	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 year	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 25	punct
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 year	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 younger	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 younger	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 younger	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 younger	cop
12	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 old	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 read	cc
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 read	aux
15	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 younger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					young property	tree rules
2	read	could	she not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod

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

Option 3

Neither of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Neither	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only the mum, as many women over 30 could vote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mum	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 vote	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 vote	mark
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 women	amod
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 vote	nsubj
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 30	case
9	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 women	nmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 vote	aux
11	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mum	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote	could	many women over 30	the mum not said here					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent mum=Result

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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