--- title: Noah thinks the Americans just stopped having a king one day and eve… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: Noah thinks the Americans just stopped having a king one day and everyone got the vote. Who acts: Noah, Americans, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies/1/) [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/) / [Who decides: kings, councils, republic…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/67-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies/) / 1 # Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 1 Noah thinks the Americans just stopped having a king one day and everyone got the vote. **Who acts:** Noah, Americans, everyone · **What happens:** think, stop, have, get · **To what, where:** king, vote · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies» 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 (Noah, Americans, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:1 # text = Noah thinks the Americans just stopped having a king one day and everyone got the vote. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.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 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Americans American PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 14 nsubj _ _ 14 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Noah | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | past | the Americans | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **have** | gerund | the Americans *not said here* | a king | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | | 4 | **get** | past | everyone | the vote | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vote=Stimulus | 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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:1`. **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. 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