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title: Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by. — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by. Who acts: Voting, people, 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 17

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Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by.

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**Who acts:** Voting, people, women · **What happens:** let, choose, make, live · **To what, where:** people, laws

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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 (Voting, people, 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:17
# text = Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Voting	voting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** | present | Voting | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | the laws |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product |
| 4 | **live** | must | women *= woman* | the laws *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme law=Location |

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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:17`.

**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): R8-pos-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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