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title: In 1920 American women won the vote. Who still often found it hard t… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1920 American women won the vote. Who still often found it hard to vote after that? Test 5 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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# Test 5 · Votes for women

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

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** American women, vote · **What happens:** win, find, vote · **To what, where:** vote, 1920

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In 1920 American women won the vote.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t5:1
# text = In 1920 American women won the vote.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1920	1920	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | American women | the vote |  | 1920 |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who still often found it hard to vote after that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t5:2
# text = Who still often found it hard to vote after that?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | vote |  |  | still | hard, often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **vote** | to-infinitive | vote *not said here* |  |  |  | after that |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Many Black women in the South, until the 1960s

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t5:o1:1
# text = Many Black women in the South, until the 1960s
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t5:o2:1
# text = Only men
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only women in New York and the big cities of the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t5:o3:1
# text = Only women in New York and the big cities of the north
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nobody at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t5:o4:1
# text = Nobody at all
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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