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title: New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928. What does that show? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» 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 wa
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Australia and New Zealand: a short story

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New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928. What does that show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** New, that · **What happens:** give, show · **To what, where:** vote, women, 1893

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» 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/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t9:1
# text = New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893 and Britain in 1918 and 1928.
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	1928	1928	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | New | the vote | women | 1893 and Britain |  | in 1918 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient vote=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does that show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t9:2
# text = What does that show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

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

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A small country can lead the world on a big idea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t9:o1:1
# text = A small country can lead the world on a big idea
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | can | a small country | the world |  | a big idea |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent world=Theme on idea=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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New Zealand was part of the USA

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t9:o2:1
# text = New Zealand was part of the USA
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | New Zealand | part |  |  |  | of the USA | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Britain was always first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t9:o3:1
# text = Britain was always first
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Britain |  |  |  |  | always, first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Votes did not matter then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:t9:o4:1
# text = Votes did not matter then
1	Votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | past · do-support | Votes |  |  |  | then |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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