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title: Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property could vote, and no women anywhere could vote in national elections, as if they could not decide important things. Who acts: men, women. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Votes for women, sentence 0

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Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property could vote, and no women anywhere could vote in national elections, as if they could not decide important things.

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**Who acts:** men, women · **What happens:** own, vote, not decide · **To what, where:** property, most countries, national elections, important things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» 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 (men, women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:032-votes-for-women.lesson:0
# text = Two hundred years ago in most countries only men who owned property could vote, and no women anywhere could vote in national elections, as if they could not decide important things.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 032-votes-for-women.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl
32	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | men | property |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme |
| 2 | **vote** | could | men |  |  | most countries |  | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vote** | could | no women |  |  | national elections |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **decide** | could | women *= woman* | important things |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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:032-votes-for-women.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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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