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title: A cartoon shows women voting since forever. What should be put right? — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon shows women voting since forever. What should be put right? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» of the politics 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 3 · ★ · Who can vote, and why children cannot

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A cartoon shows women voting since forever. What should be put right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon, women · **What happens:** show, vote, put · **To what, where:** women

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 3 «Who can vote, and why children cannot» of the politics 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/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows women voting since forever.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t3:1
# text = A cartoon shows women voting since forever.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	voting	vote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon |  | women |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient |
| 2 | **vote** | gerund | women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 should be put right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t3:2
# text = What should be put right?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Cartoons are always right about history

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t3:o1:1
# text = Cartoons are always right about history
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cartoons |  |  |  |  | about history; always, right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Women never voted until last year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t3:o2:1
# text = Women never voted until last year
1	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **vote** | past | Women |  |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Many countries only let women vote from about 100 years ago, after long campaigns

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t3:o3:1
# text = Many countries only let women vote from about 100 years ago, after long campaigns
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | Many countries | women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vote** | infinitive | women *not said here* |  |  |  | after long campaigns; year | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only women were allowed to vote in the old days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot:t3:o4:1
# text = Only women were allowed to vote in the old days
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | past · passive |  | women |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **vote** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | women *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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