Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 1
It is a funny, made-up trial, but every piece of it comes from real history.
Who acts: crowd, piece · What happens: make, be, come · To what, where: funny made up trial, real history
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (crowd, piece), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trial | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trial | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trial | det |
| 4 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trial | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 trial | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 trial | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trial | amod |
| 9 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 comes | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trial | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 history | case |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 history | amod |
| 19 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trial | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | crowd | a funny made up trial | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | every piece of crowd | real history | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from history=Initial_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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:1.
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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