Votes for women, sentence 8
Some people disliked the suffragettes' methods, but their actions made the question impossible to ignore.
Who acts: people, actions, question, suffragettes · What happens: dislike, make, ignore, act · To what, where: methods, question
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 (people, actions, question, suffragettes), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disliked | nsubj |
| 3 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 suffragettes | det |
| 5 | suffragettes | suffragette | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 methods | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 suffragettes | case |
| 7 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disliked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 actions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disliked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 question | det |
| 14 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ignore | mark |
| 17 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 impossible | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disliked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dislike | past | some people | the suffragettes's methods | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer method=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | suffragettes's actions | the question | impossible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset question=Product | |||
| 3 | ignore | to-infinitive | the question not said here | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | act | suffragettes = suffragette | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): 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.
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