Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 4
Over two hundred years, punishments in Britain slowly became less cruel.
Who acts: punishments · What happens: become
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 (punishments), 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 | Over | over | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hundred | nummod |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 6 | punishments | punishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Britain | case |
| 8 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 punishments | nmod |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 became | advmod |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 cruel | advmod |
| 12 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | punishments in Britain | year | cruel, slowly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:4.
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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