The Industrial Revolution, sentence 2

Cloth became cheap, but mill and mine work was long and hard, and children as young as six worked in them, which is why reformers fought for laws that sent children to school instead.

Who acts: Cloth, mill, children, laws · What happens: become, be, work, send · To what, where: children, school

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 (Cloth, mill, children, laws), 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	Cloth	Cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 long	cc
6	mill	mill	NOUN	_	11 long	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 work	cc
8	mine	mine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 work	amod
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mill	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 long	cop
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hard	cc
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 long	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 children	cc
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 worked	nsubj
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 young	advmod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 six	case
20	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 young	obl
21	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 worked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fought	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 fought	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fought	cop
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 fought	advmod
28	reformers	reformer	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fought	nsubj
29	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 worked	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 laws	case
31	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fought	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sent	nsubj
33	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laws	acl:relcl
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sent	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 school	case
36	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sent	obl
37	instead	instead	ADV	_	33 sent	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Cloth			cheap property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	mill and mine work			long property	tree rules
3	be		mill and mine work not said here				tree rules
4	work	past	children			in mill	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in they=Theme
5	is	present				for laws; fight property	tree rules
6	send	past	laws	children	school	instead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Destination

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:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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