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title: Revolutions gave the vote at first mostly to men with property, and… — Who decides: kings, councils, republics and demo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Revolutions gave the vote at first mostly to men with property, and rights came slowly, step by step. Who acts: Revolutions, rights, step. 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 th
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# Who decides: kings, councils, republics and democracies, sentence 4

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Revolutions gave the vote at first mostly to men with property, and rights came slowly, step by step.

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**Who acts:** Revolutions, rights, step · **What happens:** give, come, step · **To what, where:** vote, men, step

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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 (Revolutions, rights, step), 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:4
# text = Revolutions gave the vote at first mostly to men with property, and rights came slowly, step by step.
# 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	Revolutions	revolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	obl	_	_
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	rights	right	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Revolutions | the vote | men with property |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent vote=Theme at first=Asset to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | past | rights | step by step |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **step** |  | step |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: by=agent |

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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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**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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