Test 3 · Votes for women

Why did the First World War change many people's minds about women voting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: First World War, women, many people · What happens: change, vote, mind · To what, where: minds

This is test 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 change	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 change	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 War	det
4	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 War	amod
5	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 War	compound
6	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 change	nsubj
7	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 minds	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 people	case
11	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 women	case
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 minds	nmod
14	voting	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 women	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	past · do-support	the First World War	many people's minds	about women	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	vote	gerund	women not said here			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mind		many people		about women	nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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

Women won the war alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 won	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	Women	the war				alone property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Women did all kinds of jobs and showed they could do anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kinds	det
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 jobs	case
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kinds	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 showed	cc
8	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 showed	ccomp
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Women	all kinds of jobs	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality
2	show	past	Women not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	could	Women = woman	anything	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

Option 3

Men stopped voting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	voting	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Men						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	vote	gerund	Men not said here						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The war was fought over voting, and women were the generals on both sides

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fought	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	aux:pass
4	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 voting	case
6	voting	voting	NOUN	_	4 fought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 generals	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 generals	cc
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 generals	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 generals	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 generals	det
12	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fought	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sides	case
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sides	det
15	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 generals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · passive		the war				over voting	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Co-Agent over voting=Theme
2	is a	past	women	the generals		both sides			tree rules

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