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title: Two hundred years ago in most countries only men with property could… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: Two hundred years ago in most countries only men with property could vote, and women could not vote in national elections anywhere. Who acts: men, 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 cla
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# Votes for women, sentence 4

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Two hundred years ago in most countries only men with property could vote, and women could not vote in national elections anywhere.

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**Who acts:** men, women · **What happens:** vote, not vote · **To what, where:** most countries, national elections

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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 (men, 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:4
# text = Two hundred years ago in most countries only men with property could vote, and women could not vote in national elections anywhere.
# 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 ×2
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	elections	election	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | men with property |  |  | most countries |  | ago *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **vote** | could | women |  |  | national elections |  | anywhere *property* | 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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**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 ×2. **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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