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title: Identify the first self-governing nation to extend the franchise to… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the first self-governing nation to extend the franchise to women in national elections. Exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Votes for women

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

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, govern, extend · **To what, where:** first governing nation, franchise, women, national elections

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/32-votes-for-women/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e1:1
# text = Identify the first self-governing nation to extend the franchise to women in national elections.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
4	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	governing	govern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	franchise	franchise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the first governing nation |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nation=Theme |
| 2 | **govern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **extend** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the franchise | women | national elections |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent franchise=Theme to woman=Recipient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The United States

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e1:o1:1
# text = The United States
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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New Zealand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e1:o2:1
# text = New Zealand
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The United Kingdom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e1:o3:1
# text = The United Kingdom
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	3	flat	_	_
3	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Swiss Confederation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e1:o4:1
# text = The Swiss Confederation
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Confederation	confederation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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