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title: In Athens women, slaves and foreigners could not vote. — Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Athens women, slaves and foreigners could not vote. Who acts: slaves. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers, sentence 8

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In Athens women, slaves and foreigners could not vote.

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**Who acts:** slaves · **What happens:** not vote

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Greece: democracy, the Olympics, myths and thinkers» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:8
# text = In Athens women, slaves and foreigners could not vote.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	foreigners	foreigner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **vote** | could | slaves and foreigners |  |  |  |  | in Athens women | 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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:012-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers.lesson:8`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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