--- title: Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime ministe… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics description: Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in the world. What is right? Test 9 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/32-votes-for-women/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Votes for women](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/32-votes-for-women/) / t9 # Test 9 · Votes for women Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in the world. What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, Margaret · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** first woman prime minister, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in the world. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t9:1 # text = Your friend says Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister in the world. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Margaret Margaret PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 Thatcher Thatcher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 prime prime ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 minister minister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | Margaret | the first woman prime minister | | the world | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t9:2 # text = What is right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Queen Victoria was first ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t9:o1:1 # text = Queen Victoria was first 1 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Victoria Victoria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | Queen | | | | | first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Kate Sheppard was first ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t9:o2:1 # text = Kate Sheppard was first 1 Kate Kate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Sheppard Sheppard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | Kate | | | | | first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was first, in 1960 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t9:o3:1 # text = Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was first, in 1960 1 Sirimavo Sirimavo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Bandaranaike Bandaranaike PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sri Sri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 Lanka Lanka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1960 1960 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 list _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Thatcher was first, in 1900 ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:32-votes-for-women:t9:o4:1 # text = Thatcher was first, in 1900 1 Thatcher Thatcher PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | Thatcher | | | 1900 | | first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1900=Location | **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. 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