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title: sis says women always had the vote it's just old movies making stuff… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: sis says women always had the vote it's just old movies making stuff up Test 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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# Test 1 · Votes for women

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sis says women always had the vote it's just old movies making stuff up

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sis, women · **What happens:** say, have, be, make up · **To what, where:** vote, old movies, stuff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 32 «Votes for women» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/32-votes-for-women/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t1:1
# text = sis says women always had the vote it's just old movies making stuff up
1	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	movies	movie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sis |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | women | the vote |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | sis | old movies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make up** | gerund | women *not said here* | stuff |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stuff=Pivot |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, women still cannot vote anywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t1:o1:1
# text = No, women still cannot vote anywhere
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **vote** | can | women |  |  |  | still | anywhere *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, since the Romans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, since the Romans
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they had to campaign for it, and it took until 1893 even for the first country

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t1:o3:1
# text = No, they had to campaign for it, and it took until 1893 even for the first country
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	until	until	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | they | campaign |  |  |  | for campaign | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | it |  |  |  | until 1893 | for the first country | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for country=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, they always voted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, they always voted
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | past | they |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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