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Test 9 · Votes for women

Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in the world. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Margaret · What happens: say, be · To what, where: first woman prime minister, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in the world.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 minister	nsubj
5	Thatcher	Thatcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Margaret	flat
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 minister	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 minister	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 minister	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 minister	compound
10	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 minister	amod
11	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 minister	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Margaret	the first woman prime minister		the world			tree rules

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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Queen Victoria was first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
2	Victoria	Victoria	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Queen	flat
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Queen					first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Kate Sheppard was first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
2	Sheppard	Sheppard	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kate	flat
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Kate					first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was first, in 1960

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sirimavo	Sirimavo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bandaranaike	compound
2	Bandaranaike	Bandaranaike	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Sri	case
4	Sri	Sri	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bandaranaike	nmod
5	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sri	flat
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 first	cop
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 Bandaranaike	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 1960	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1960	case
10	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 Bandaranaike	list

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri not said here					first property	tree rules

Option 4

Thatcher was first, in 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thatcher	Thatcher	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 was	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 1900	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1900	case
6	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Thatcher			1900		first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1900=Location

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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