--- title: The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder act… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics description: The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder actions such as chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows and going on hunger strike in prison. Who acts: British suffragettes, bolder actions. A sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» of the history course of Mova's primary --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Votes for women, sentence 7 The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder actions such as chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows and going on hunger strike in prison. **Who acts:** British suffragettes, bolder actions · **What happens:** lead, use, chain, break, go · **To what, where:** British suffragettes, bolder actions, actions, windows, hunger strike 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 (British suffragettes, bolder actions), 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:7 # text = The British suffragettes, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used bolder actions such as chaining themselves to railings, breaking windows and going on hunger strike in prison. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 suffragettes suffragette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Emmeline Emmeline PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 Pankhurst Pankhurst PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 bolder bold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 15 mark _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 chaining chain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl 16 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 railings railing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 21 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 strike strike NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | participle | | the British suffragettes *not said here* | | | | by Emmeline | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by emmeline=Destination | | 2 | **use** | past | the British suffragettes | bolder actions | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Patient | | 3 | **chain** | gerund | bolder actions *not said here* | actions *= action* | | | | to railings | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to railing=Co-Patient | | 4 | **break** | gerund | bolder actions *not said here* | windows | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient | | 5 | **go** | gerund | bolder actions *not said here* | | | hunger strike | | in prison | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on strike=Location | 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:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Votes for women, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/6/) - next →: [Votes for women, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/32-votes-for-women/)