Votes for women, sentence 17
Voting lets people choose who makes the laws they must live by.
Who acts: Voting, people, women · What happens: let, choose, make, live · To what, where: people, laws
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 (Voting, people, 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 | Voting | voting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lets | nsubj |
| 2 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lets | obj |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lets | xcomp |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 laws | det |
| 8 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 makes | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | aux |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 laws | acl:relcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 live | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Voting | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | infinitive | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | the laws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product | |||||
| 4 | live | must | women = woman | the laws not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme law=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, 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:17.
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): R8-pos-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.
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