--- title: In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where wo… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics description: In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where women could vote in national elections, after a huge petition led by Kate Sheppard. Who acts: New Zealand, women. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Votes for women](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/) / 5 # Votes for women, sentence 5 In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where women could vote in national elections, after a huge petition led by Kate Sheppard. **Who acts:** New Zealand, women · **What happens:** become, govern, vote, lead · **To what, where:** first governing country, 1893, national elections, huge petition 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 (New Zealand, 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:5 # text = In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country where women could vote in national elections, after a huge petition led by Kate Sheppard. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1893 1893 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 4 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 8 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 governing govern VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 13 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 elections election NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 petition petition NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 24 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Kate Kate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl:agent _ _ 27 Sheppard Sheppard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 flat _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | New Zealand | the first governing country | | | after a huge petition | in 1893 *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in 1893=Result | | 2 | **govern** | gerund | | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **vote** | could | women | | | national elections | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lead** | participle | | a huge petition *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | 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. **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:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Votes for women, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/4/) - next →: [Votes for women, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/)