Test 5 · Votes for women
In 1920 American women won the vote. Who still often found it hard to vote after that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: American women, vote · What happens: win, find, vote · To what, where: vote, 1920
This is test 5 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 1920 American women won the vote.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1920 | case |
| 2 | 1920 | 1920 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 won | obl |
| 3 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 women | amod |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 won | nsubj |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vote | det |
| 7 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | American women | the vote | 1920 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality |
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 still often found it hard to vote after that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 found | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 vote | mark |
| 8 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | xcomp |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 vote | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | vote | still | hard, often property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | vote | to-infinitive | vote not said here | after that | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many Black women in the South, until the 1960s
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 women | amod |
| 2 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 women | amod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 South | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 South | det |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 women | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 1960s | punct |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 10 1960s | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 1960s | det |
| 10 | 1960s | 1960s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 3 women | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 men | advmod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Only women in New York and the big cities of the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 women | advmod |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 York | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 York | flat |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 women | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cities | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cities | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cities | amod |
| 9 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 York | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 north | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 north | det |
| 12 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cities | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nobody at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nobody | nmod |
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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