The Industrial Revolution, sentence 12
Workers formed trade unions to ask together for fair pay, shorter hours and safety, and won things like the weekend and the eight-hour day.
Who acts: Workers · What happens: form, ask, win · To what, where: trade unions, things
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 (Workers), 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 | Workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 formed | nsubj |
| 2 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unions | compound |
| 4 | unions | union | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 formed | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 formed | advcl |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 ask | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 pay | case |
| 9 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pay | amod |
| 10 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hours | punct |
| 12 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 hours | amod |
| 13 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pay | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 safety | cc |
| 15 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pay | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 won | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 won | cc |
| 18 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 formed | conj |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 won | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 weekend | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weekend | det |
| 22 | weekend | weekend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 things | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 day | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 day | det |
| 25 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hour | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 eight | punct |
| 27 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 day | compound |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weekend | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | Workers | trade unions | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location union=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Workers not said here | for fair pay and shorter hours and safety; together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | win | past | Workers not said here | things | like the weekend and the hour day | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:history:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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