The Industrial Revolution, sentence 9

Children as young as six worked long hours in mills and mines, and in 1833 a British law banned children under nine from working in most textile mills.

Who acts: Children, British law · What happens: work, ban · To what, where: children, 1833

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 (Children, British 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	6 worked	nsubj
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 young	advmod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Children	amod
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 six	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 young	obl
6	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	amod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worked	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 mills	case
10	mills	mill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mines	cc
12	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mills	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 banned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 banned	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 1833	case
16	1833	1833	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 banned	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 law	det
18	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 law	amod
19	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 banned	nsubj
20	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 worked	conj
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 banned	obj
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 nine	case
23	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nmod
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	25 working	mark
25	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 banned	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 mills	case
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 mills	amod
28	textile	textile	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mills	compound
29	mills	mill	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 working	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	Children			hour	in mills and mines	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme
2	ban	past	a British law	children	1833		under nine	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme
3	work	gerund	a British law not said here				in most textile mills	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme

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:9.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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