Who can vote, and why children cannot, sentence 8

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 · What happens: mean, vote, give · To what, where: right, vote, women, 1893

This is a sentence of the lesson «Who can vote, and why children cannot» of the politics 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 (Suffrage, New Zealand), 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	Suffrage	suffrage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 right	det
4	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 vote	mark
6	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 right	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	New	New	PROPN	_	9 Zealand	flat
9	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
11	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vote	det
13	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 1893	case
15	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 gave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 1893	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 USA	det
18	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 1893	nmod:unmarked
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 1920	case
20	1920	1920	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 gave	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 UK	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 UK	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 UK	det
24	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
25	partly	partly	ADV	_	27 1918	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 1918	case
27	1918	1918	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 means	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 terms	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 terms	case
30	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 terms	amod
31	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 1918	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 men	case
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 terms	nmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 1928	case
35	1928	1928	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 men	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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, 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.

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