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title: The suffragettes' motto was Deeds not words, and their colours were… — Votes for women · tree and pragmatics
description: The suffragettes' motto was Deeds not words, and their colours were purple, white and green. Who acts: motto, colours. 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 9

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The suffragettes' motto was Deeds not words, and their colours were purple, white and green.

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**Who acts:** motto, colours · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Deeds

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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 (motto, colours), 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:9
# text = The suffragettes' motto was Deeds not words, and their colours were purple, white and green.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	suffragettes	suffragette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	motto	motto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the suffragettes's motto | Deeds |  |  |  | words *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | suffragettes's colours |  |  |  |  | purple *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | suffragettes's colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | suffragettes's colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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/).

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