The Industrial Revolution, sentence 8
Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes.
Who acts: Spinning machines, ordinary people · What happens: weave, make, afford · To what, where: cloth, more clothes
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 (Spinning machines, ordinary people), 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 | Spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 machines | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 weaving | cc |
| 3 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Spinning | conj |
| 4 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mills | case |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mills | amod |
| 7 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mills | compound |
| 8 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 machines | nmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 faster | advmod |
| 12 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 made | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cheaper | cc |
| 14 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 faster | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 afford | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 afford | advmod |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 afford | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 afford | aux |
| 20 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | advcl |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 clothes | amod |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 afford | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | 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 | weave | gerund | Spinning machines in big cotton mills not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Spinning machines in big cotton mills | cloth | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloth=Product | |||
| 3 | afford | could | ordinary people | more clothes | tree rules |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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