Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 17
In Victorian times, some children worked as chimney sweeps' climbing boys, a dangerous job; a law of 1875 finally stopped it.
Who acts: children, law · What happens: work, climb, stop · To what, where: job
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the english 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 (children, law), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | Victorian | Victorian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worked | nsubj |
| 7 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 boys | case |
| 9 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweeps | compound |
| 10 | sweeps | sweep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boys | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | ' | PART | _ | 10 sweeps | case |
| 12 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 boys | amod |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 worked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweeps | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 job | det |
| 16 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 job | amod |
| 17 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boys | appos |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 law | det |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopped | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 1875 | case |
| 22 | 1875 | 1875 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 law | nmod |
| 23 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 24 stopped | advmod |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 worked | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stopped | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | some children | time | as chimney sweeps's climbing boys | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as boy=Attribute | |||
| 2 | climb | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stop | past | a law of 1875 | job | finally property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
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:english:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.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): R7-rel-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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