Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 17

The Children Act of 1908, the year the book came out, stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people.

Who acts: book, Children Act · What happens: come out, stop, send, set up · To what, where: year, children, 14, prison, special courts

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 (book, Children Act), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Act	det
2	Children	Children	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Act	compound
3	Act	Act	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 1908	case
5	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Act	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Act	appos
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 book	det
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 year	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Act	punct
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stopped	obj
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 14	case
17	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 children	nmod
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sent	aux:pass
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stopped	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 prison	case
21	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
23	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 sent	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 set	compound:prt
25	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 courts	amod
26	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 set	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 courts	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the book	the year not said here		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient year=Result
2	stop	past	the Children Act of 1908	children	14		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector child=Eventuality
3	send	gerund · passive	the Children Act of 1908 not said here		prison		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to prison=Destination
4	set up	participle	the Children Act of 1908 not said here	special courts		for young people	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent court=Patient for people=Beneficiary

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:17.

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): 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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