Votes for women, sentence 1

Imagine your class voting on the school trip, but only the boys with a bike get a say: that was how elections worked, and many women and men set out to change it.

Who acts: you, boys, that, many women · What happens: imagine, get, be, set out, change · To what, where: class voting, school trip, say

This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes for women» 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 (you, boys, that, many women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 class	nmod:poss
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voting	compound
4	voting	voting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagine	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 trip	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trip	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trip	compound
8	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagine	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 boys	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 boys	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boys	det
13	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	nsubj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 bike	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bike	det
16	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boys	nmod
17	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Imagine	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 say	det
19	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 worked	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 worked	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 worked	cop
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 worked	advmod
24	elections	election	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 worked	nsubj
25	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 women	amod
29	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 set	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 men	cc
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 women	conj
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 worked	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 set	compound:prt
34	to	to	PART	_	35 change	mark
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 set	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 change	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	class voting	the school trip		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot voting=Theme
2	get	present	the boys with a bike	a say			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer say=Stimulus
3	is	past	that			work property	tree rules
4	set out	past	many women and men				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	change	to-infinitive	many women and men not said here	say			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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, 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:032-votes-for-women.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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