Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★
★★★ Lucy: «Women got the vote in 1918 only coz of the war, end of.» Better answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Women · What happens: get · To what, where: vote, 1918 coz
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 86 «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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: ★★★ Lucy: «Women got the vote in 1918 only coz of the war, end of.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 4 Lucy | case |
| 4 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 7 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ★ | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vote | det |
| 10 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 coz | case |
| 12 | 1918 | 1918 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 coz | nummod |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 coz | advmod |
| 14 | coz | coz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 war | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 war | det |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coz | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 end | punct |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coz | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ★ | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Women | the vote | 1918 coz of the war | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus |
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: Better answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No; British women could always vote
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 British | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 women | amod |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 vote | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 vote | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 vote | advmod |
| 7 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vote | could | British women | always property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Right; nobody asked for votes before 1914
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 votes | case |
| 6 | votes | vote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asked | obl |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 1914 | case |
| 8 | 1914 | 1914 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 asked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | nobody | before 1914 | for votes; right property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
No; the war stopped women from ever voting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stopped | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 war | det |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 voting | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 voting | advmod |
| 9 | voting | voting | NOUN | _ | 5 stopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the war | women | voting | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer woman=Beneficiary from voting=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The war helped, but campaigners had fought for decades
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 | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fought | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 fought | cc |
| 6 | campaigners | campaigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fought | aux |
| 8 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 helped | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 decades | case |
| 10 | decades | decade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | the war | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight | past · perfect · passive | campaigners | decade | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
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