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title: During the First World War women worked in factories, drove ambulanc… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: During the First World War women worked in factories, drove ambulances and ran farms, and many people saw that women could do any job. Who acts: women, many people. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Votes for women, sentence 10

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During the First World War women worked in factories, drove ambulances and ran farms, and many people saw that women could do any job.

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**Who acts:** women, many people · **What happens:** work, drive, run, see, do · **To what, where:** First World War, ambulances, farms, job · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (women, many people), 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:10
# text = During the First World War women worked in factories, drove ambulances and ran farms, and many people saw that women could do any job.
# 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
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
3	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	ambulances	ambulance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **work** | past | women | the First World War |  |  |  | in factories | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in factory=Theme |
| 2 | **drive** | past | women *not said here* | ambulances |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme ambulance=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run** | past | women *not said here* | farms |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme farm=Trajectory |
| 4 | **see** | past | many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | could | women | any job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

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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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**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. **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.

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