--- title: Suffrage means the right to vote; New Zealand gave women the vote in… — Who can vote, and why children cannot · tree and pragmatics description: Suffrage means the right to vote; New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, the USA in 1920, and the UK partly in 1918 and on equal terms with men in 1928. Who acts: Suffrage, New Zealand. 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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 (Suffrage, New Zealand), 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:8 # text = Suffrage means the right to vote; New Zealand gave women the vote in 1893, the USA in 1920, and the UK partly in 1918 and on equal terms with men in 1928. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Suffrage suffrage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean 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 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 New New PROPN NNP _ 9 flat _ _ 9 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 vote vote NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 1893 1893 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 1920 1920 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 25 partly partly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 1918 1918 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 terms term NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Suffrage | the right | | | | in 1918 and equal terms with men in 1928; the UK *obl* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot right=Theme in 1918=Attribute | | 2 | **vote** | to-infinitive | Suffrage *not said here* | the right *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **give** | past | New Zealand | the vote | women | 1893 the USA | | in 1920 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient vote=Theme | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/6/) - next →: [Who can vote, and why children cannot, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/3-who-can-vote-and-why-children-cannot/)