--- title: In 1900 almost no country let all adults vote; today, depending on h… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1900 almost no country let all adults vote; today, depending on how researchers count, between about a third and a half of the world's people live in democracies. Who acts: country, adults, researchers, third half. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, adults, researchers, third half), 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:16 # text = In 1900 almost no country let all adults vote; today, depending on how researchers count, between about a third and a half of the world's people live in democracies. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 1900 1900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nummod 3 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl:unmarked 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 depending depend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 14 on on SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 researchers researcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=17:punct 19 between between ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 22 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 amod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 democracies democracy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | past | no country | 1900 | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **vote** | infinitive | all adults | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **depend** | gerund | no country *not said here* | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **count** | present | researchers | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **live** | present | a third half of the world's people | | | democracies | today | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in democracy=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:067-who-decides-kings-councils-republics-and-democracies.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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