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title: Ascertain the year in which women in the United Kingdom attained the… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the year in which women in the United Kingdom attained the franchise upon equal terms with men. Exam question 3 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 right
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# Exam question 3 · Votes for women

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

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, women · **What happens:** ascertain, attain · **To what, where:** franchise

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the year in which women in the United Kingdom attained the franchise upon equal terms with men.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	United	United	PROPN	NNP	_	10	flat	_	_
10	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	attained	attain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	franchise	franchise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attain** | past | women in the United Kingdom | the franchise |  |  | in the year | upon equal terms with men | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent franchise=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e3:o1:1
# text = Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nineteen hundred and forty-four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e3:o2:1
# text = Nineteen hundred and forty-four
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eighteen hundred and ninety-three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e3:o3:1
# text = Eighteen hundred and ninety-three
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nineteen hundred and seventy-one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:e3:o4:1
# text = Nineteen hundred and seventy-one
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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