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title: In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman prime minister, and today women lead countries all over the world. Who acts: Sirimavo, women. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Votes for women, sentence 16

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In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman prime minister, and today women lead countries all over the world.

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**Who acts:** Sirimavo, women · **What happens:** become, lead · **To what, where:** first woman prime minister, 1960, countries, world

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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 (Sirimavo, 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:16
# text = In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman prime minister, and today women lead countries all over the world.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1960	1960	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
3	Sirimavo	Sirimavo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	Bandaranaike	Bandaranaike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sri	Sri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Lanka	Lanka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:compound
14	prime	prime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	today	today	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **become** | past | Sirimavo of Sri | the world's first woman prime minister |  |  |  | in 1960 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1960=Result |
| 2 | **lead** | present | women | countries |  | the world |  | today *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent country=Theme over world=Destination |

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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:16`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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