Coal, oil and gas, sentence 13
Children worked in British coal mines until a law of 1842 banned children under ten from working underground.
Who acts: Children, law · What happens: work, ban · To what, where: children, ten
This is a sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mines | case |
| 4 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mines | amod |
| 5 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mines | compound |
| 6 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 worked | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 banned | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 law | det |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 banned | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 1842 | case |
| 11 | 1842 | 1842 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 law | nmod |
| 12 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 worked | advcl |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 banned | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 ten | case |
| 15 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 children | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 working | mark |
| 17 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 banned | advcl |
| 18 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 17 working | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Children | in British coal mines | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ban | past | a law of 1842 | children | ten | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | a law of 1842 not said here | underground property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:geography:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:13.
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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