Test 3 · ★ · Who can vote, and why children cannot
A cartoon shows women voting since forever. What should be put right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, women · What happens: show, vote, put · To what, where: women
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» of the politics 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: A cartoon shows women voting since forever.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 5 | voting | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 women | acl |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 7 forever | case |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 5 voting | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | women | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | vote | gerund | women not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
Sentence 2: What should be put right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | should · passive | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
The options
Option 1
Cartoons are always right about history
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 history | case |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cartoons | about history; always, right property | tree rules |
Option 2
Women never voted until last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 voted | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 voted | advmod |
| 3 | voted | vote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 voted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not vote | past | Women | year | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Many countries only let women vote from about 100 years ago, after long campaigns
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 countries | amod |
| 2 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 100 | advmod |
| 9 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vote | obl |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 vote | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 campaigns | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 campaigns | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 campaigns | amod |
| 15 | campaigns | campaign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vote | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Many countries | women | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vote | infinitive | women not said here | after long campaigns; year | ago property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Only women were allowed to vote in the old days
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 | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 vote | mark |
| 6 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 days | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vote | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | women | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | vote not said to happen | to-infinitive | women not said here | day | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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