Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 23

Early factory workers often worked 12 hours or more, six days a week; workers campaigned, and the 8-hour day and two-day weekend spread in the early 1900s.

Who acts: Early factory workers, workers, hour day · What happens: work, campaign, spread · To what, where: early 1900s

This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (Early factory workers, workers, hour day), 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	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 workers	amod
2	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 workers	compound
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worked	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 worked	advmod
5	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worked	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 hours	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 days	punct
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worked	obl:unmarked
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 days	nmod:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 workers	punct
16	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 campaigned	nsubj
17	campaigned	campaign	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spread	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 day	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
21	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 hour	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 8	punct
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 day	compound
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spread	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 spread	cc
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 day	nummod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 two	punct
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 weekend	compound
29	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spread	nsubj
30	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worked	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 1900s	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 1900s	det
33	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 1900s	amod
34	1900s	1900	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	30 spread	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worked	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	Early factory workers		day; hour	often property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	campaign	past	workers				tree rules
3	spread	past	the hour day	the early 1900s			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1900=Location

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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:23.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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