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title: New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, before any other self-gover… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, before any other self-governing country. Who acts: New. A sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Australia and New Zealand: a short story, sentence 15

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New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, before any other self-governing country.

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**Who acts:** New · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** vote, women, 1893

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:15
# text = New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, before any other self-governing country.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.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	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	governing	govern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | past | New | the vote | women | 1893 | before any other governing country |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient vote=Theme |

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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:040-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story.lesson:15`.

**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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