Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 6

In the very year the book came out, 1908, a new law stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people.

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

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the book	1908		year	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	stop	past	a new law	children 14				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality child=Eventuality
3	send	gerund · passive	a new law not said here		prison			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to prison=Destination
4	set up	past	a new law 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:6.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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