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Test 9 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: New, that · What happens: give, show · To what, where: vote, women, 1893

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» 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: New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 New	flat
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vote	det
6	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1893	case
8	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Britain	cc
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 1893	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 1918	case
12	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 gave	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 1928	cc
14	1928	1928	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 1918	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	New	the vote	women	1893 and Britain		in 1918	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient vote=Theme

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 does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A small country can lead the world on a big idea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 country	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 country	amod
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lead	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lead	aux
5	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lead	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 idea	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 idea	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 idea	amod
11	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lead	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	can	a small country	the world		a big idea			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent world=Theme on idea=Destination

Option 2

New Zealand was part of the USA

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Zealand	flat
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 part	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 part	cop
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 USA	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 USA	det
7	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	New Zealand	part				of the USA	tree rules

Option 3

Britain was always first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Votes did not matter then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Votes	vote	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	past · do-support	Votes				then		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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