--- title: The rules have changed before: your great-great-gran may not have be… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: The rules have changed before: your great-great-gran may not have been allowed to vote just because she was a woman, until campaigners called suffragettes and suffragists won that right. Who acts: rules, great great gran, year old, campaigners. 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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 (rules, great great gran, year old, campaigners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:2 # text = The rules have changed before: your great-great-gran may not have been allowed to vote just because she was a woman, until campaigners called suffragettes and suffragists won that right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 before before ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 advcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 27 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 campaigners campaigner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 acl _ _ 30 suffragettes suffragette NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 32 suffragists suffragist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 34 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present · perfect | the rules | | | | | before *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **allow** | may · perfect · passive | | your great great gran | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **vote** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | your great great gran *not said here* | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | year old *= old* | a woman | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | participle | campaigners *not said here* | suffragettes and suffragists | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suffragette=Recipient | | 6 | **win** | past | campaigners | that right | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Eventuality | 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:politics:003-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot.lesson:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/1/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)