Votes for women

Tests: 4 of 10 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: plain · Understood: 8 of 14 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 32 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · wrong ✗

sis says women always had the vote it's just old movies making stuff up

1. No, women still cannot vote anywhere — ← Mova's choice · score 5
2. Yes, since the Romans — no support
3. No, they had to campaign for it, and it took until 1893 even for the first country — ✓ the right answer · score 4
4. Yes, they always voted — score 4

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 5: «Two hundred years ago in most countries only men with property could vote, and women could not vote in national elections anywhere.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «vote» (+2); the same doer «women» (+2); the same property (+1). The right option, 3, scored 4. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · wrong ✗

Two groups wanted the same thing: one marched peacefully, one broke windows. Which was which?

1. Neither did anything — no support
2. Both only wrote letters — no support
3. Suffragists marched peacefully; suffragettes used bolder deeds — ✓ the right answer · score 3
4. Suffragettes marched peacefully; suffragists broke windows — ← Mova's choice · score 7

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 8: «The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder actions such as chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows and going on hunger strike i…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «break» (+5); the same thing acted on «windows» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, scored 3. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · wrong ✗

Why did the First World War change many people's minds about women voting?

1. Women won the war alone — ← Mova's choice · score 7
2. Women did all kinds of jobs and showed they could do anything — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Men stopped voting — no support
4. The war was fought over voting, and women were the generals on both sides — score 7

Why: It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 17: «English longbowmen won famous battles such as Agincourt in 1415, but France won the war in the end.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «win» (+3); the same thing acted on «war» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · right ✓

A quiz says France was the first country with votes for women. Correct it.

1. It was the USA in 1776 — no support
2. Switzerland was first in 1971 — no support
3. France was first in 1066 — no support
4. New Zealand was first, in 1893; France waited until 1944 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 11

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 11, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 6: «In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where women could vote in national elections, after a huge petition led by Kate Sheppard.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same place «1893» (+5); the same doer «new zealand» (+4); the same property (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · right ✓

In 1920 American women won the vote. Who still often found it hard to vote after that?

1. Many Black women in the South, until the 1960s — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 10
2. Only men — no support
3. Only women in New York and the big cities of the north — score 8
4. Nobody at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 12: «In 1918 many British women over 30 won the vote, and in 1928 all women over 21 could vote, the same as men.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same doer «many british women» (+3); the same thing acted on «vote» (+3); the same property (+2). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · wrong ✗

You see purple, white and green ribbons at a women's rights march. Why those colours?

1. They are the colours of the Union Jack — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They were chosen in 2020 — no support
3. They were the suffragettes' colours — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They are a football club's colours — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · wrong ✗

What would happen in a country where only half the people could vote?

1. Laws would be fairer for everyone, since men always know best — ← Mova's choice · score 1
2. Laws would be made without the other half having a say — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Nobody would make any laws — no support
4. Nothing would change at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 14: «Machu Picchu is an Inca town high on a mountain ridge, built of stones fitted so tightly that a knife blade cannot slip between them; the Spanish never found i…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «know» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1); a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · right ✓

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

1. It is only for presidents — no support
2. It lets you choose who makes the laws you have to live by — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 9
3. They had nothing else to do — no support
4. It came with a free prize, like a toy, for everyone who voted — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 32, line 17: «Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «let» (+5); the same doer «voting» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · wrong ✗

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

1. Queen Victoria was first — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Kate Sheppard was first — no support
3. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was first, in 1960 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Thatcher was first, in 1900 — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · right ✓

In 1918, a British woman of 25 and her mum of 50 go to vote. Who could vote?

1. Only the 25-year-old, because she was younger and could read — score 8
2. Both of them — no support
3. Neither of them — no support
4. Only the mum, as many women over 30 could vote — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 8 for the next best. Its support: lesson 32, line 1: «Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property could vote, and no women anywhere could vote in national elections, as if they could not de…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+5); the same action «vote» (+4); the same doer «women» (+3). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

Identify the first self-governing nation to extend the franchise to women in national elections.

1. The United States — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. New Zealand — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. The United Kingdom — no support
4. The Swiss Confederation — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the methods of the suffragettes?

1. They confined themselves solely to petitions — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. They took no action whatsoever — no support
3. They employed direct actions including chaining themselves to railings — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. They campaigned exclusively in New Zealand — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓

Ascertain the year in which women in the United Kingdom attained the franchise upon equal terms with men.

1. Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
2. Nineteen hundred and forty-four — no support
3. Eighteen hundred and ninety-three — no support
4. Nineteen hundred and seventy-one — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the first woman to hold office as prime minister.

1. Kate Sheppard of New Zealand, in eighteen hundred and ninety-three — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, in nineteen hundred and sixty — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. Margaret Thatcher of Britain, in nineteen hundred and sixty — no support
4. Emmeline Pankhurst of Britain, in nineteen hundred and eighteen — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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