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title: In 1918 many British women over 30 won the vote, and in 1928 all wom… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1918 many British women over 30 won the vote, and in 1928 all women over 21 could vote, the same as men. Who acts: many British women, women. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Votes for women, sentence 11

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In 1918 many British women over 30 won the vote, and in 1928 all women over 21 could vote, the same as men.

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**Who acts:** many British women, women · **What happens:** win, vote · **To what, where:** 1918, 1928

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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 (many British women, 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:11
# text = In 1918 many British women over 30 won the vote, and in 1928 all women over 21 could vote, the same as men.
# 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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	1918	1918	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nummod
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
7	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nummod
8	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1928	1928	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	appos	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **win** | past | many British women over 30 | 1918 |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Eventuality |
| 2 | **vote** | could | all women over 21 |  |  | 1928 |  |  | 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:032-votes-for-women.lesson:11`.

**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 ×3. **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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