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title: Imagine your class voting on the school trip, but only the boys with… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine your class voting on the school trip, but only the boys with a bike get a say: that was how elections worked, and many women and men set out to change it. Who acts: you, boys, that, many women. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Votes for women, sentence 1

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Imagine your class voting on the school trip, but only the boys with a bike get a say: that was how elections worked, and many women and men set out to change it.

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**Who acts:** you, boys, that, many women · **What happens:** imagine, get, be, set out, change · **To what, where:** class voting, school trip, say

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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 (you, boys, that, many 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:1
# text = Imagine your class voting on the school trip, but only the boys with a bike get a say: that was how elections worked, and many women and men set out to change it.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	say	say	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advcl
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | class voting |  | the school trip |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot voting=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | the boys with a bike | a say |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer say=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | work *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set out** | past | many women and men |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **change** | to-infinitive | many women and men *not said here* | say |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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