The Industrial Revolution, sentence 0

From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with machines in big factories instead of by hand at home, and life changed more than at any time since the first farms.

Who acts: people, life · What happens: begin, make, change · To what, where: 1760, things, big factories

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» 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, life), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 1760	case
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 1760	advmod
3	1760	1760	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 began	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Britain	punct
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 Britain	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Britain	case
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 1760	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 1760	punct
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 making	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 machines	case
14	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 making	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 factories	case
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 factories	amod
17	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 making	obl
18	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 hand	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 instead	fixed
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 hand	case
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 changed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	nsubj
27	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 changed	advmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	obl
33	since	since	ADP	_	36 farms	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 farms	det
35	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 farms	amod
36	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	people		1760 in Britain			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	people not said here	things	big factories		with machines; instead hand; at home	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
3	change	past	life			since the first farms; time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:history:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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