Test 8 · Votes for women

ugh voting's boring why'd they fight so hard for it

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: fight

This is test 8 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	ugh	ugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 voting	compound
2	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boring	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 voting	case
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 boring	advmod
6	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 fight	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	nsubj
8	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fight	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present	they					for voting; hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1

It is only for presidents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 presidents	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 presidents	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 presidents	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 presidents	case
5	presidents	president	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for presidents	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lets you choose who makes the laws you have to live by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 lets	obj
4	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lets	xcomp
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 choose	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 laws	det
8	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 makes	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laws	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 live	mark
12	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	present	It	you	tree rules
2	choose	infinitive	you not said here		tree rules
3	make	present		the laws	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product
4	have	present	you	the laws not said here	tree rules
5	live	to-infinitive	the laws not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They had nothing else to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 nothing	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	They not said here	nothing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It came with a free prize, like a toy, for everyone who voted

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 prize	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prize	amod
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 toy	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 toy	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toy	det
10	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 everyone	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 everyone	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 came	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 voted	nsubj
15	voted	vote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	It					with a free prize; like a toy; for everyone	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vote	past							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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