Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights, sentence 20
In the 1800s many children worked in factories and mines; Britain's Factory Act of 1833 banned children under 9 from textile mills, and well over 100 million children still work today, mostly on farms.
Who acts: many children, Factory Act, million children · What happens: work, ban · To what, where: children, 9
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» 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 (many children, Factory Act, million children), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1800s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1800s | det |
| 3 | 1800s | 1800 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worked | obl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worked | nsubj |
| 6 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 factories | case |
| 8 | factories | factory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 worked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mines | cc |
| 10 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 factories | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 banned | punct |
| 12 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Act | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Britain | case |
| 14 | Factory | Factory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Act | compound |
| 15 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 banned | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 1833 | case |
| 17 | 1833 | 1833 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Act | nmod |
| 18 | banned | ban | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worked | parataxis |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 banned | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 9 | case |
| 21 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 children | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 mills | case |
| 23 | textile | textile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mills | compound |
| 24 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 banned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 work | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 work | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 million | advmod |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 million | case |
| 29 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 million | compound |
| 30 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 children | nummod |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 work | nsubj |
| 32 | still | still | ADV | _ | 33 work | advmod |
| 33 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worked | conj |
| 34 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 work | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 farms | punct |
| 36 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 38 farms | advmod |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 farms | case |
| 38 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 work | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | many children | in factories and mines; in the 1800s | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1800=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ban | past | Britain's Factory Act of 1833 | children | 9 | from textile mills | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer child=Beneficiary from mill=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | work | present | million children | still; today | on farms | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:20.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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