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title: Women could vote in Finland from 1906, in Norway from 1913, in Franc… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Women could vote in Finland from 1906, in Norway from 1913, in France only from 1944, and in Switzerland's national elections only from 1971. Who acts: Women, Switzerland. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Votes for women, sentence 15

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Women could vote in Finland from 1906, in Norway from 1913, in France only from 1944, and in Switzerland's national elections only from 1971.

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**Who acts:** Women, Switzerland · **What happens:** vote, elect · **To what, where:** Finland

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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, Switzerland), 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:15
# text = Women could vote in Finland from 1906, in Norway from 1913, in France only from 1944, and in Switzerland's national elections only from 1971.
# 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): no change
1	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1906	1906	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1913	1913	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1944	1944	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **vote** | could | Women |  |  | Finland |  | from 1906; in Norway; from 1913; in France; from 1944; in Switzerland's national elections from 1971 | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **elect** |  | Switzerland |  |  |  |  |  | nom election «act transitive»: poss=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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**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.

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