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title: In Victorian times, some children worked as chimney sweeps' climbing… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: In Victorian times, some children worked as chimney sweeps' climbing boys, a dangerous job; a law of 1875 finally stopped it. Who acts: children, law. A sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 17

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In Victorian times, some children worked as chimney sweeps' climbing boys, a dangerous job; a law of 1875 finally stopped it.

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**Who acts:** children, law · **What happens:** work, climb, stop · **To what, where:** job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the english 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 (children, law), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:17
# text = In Victorian times, some children worked as chimney sweeps' climbing boys, a dangerous job; a law of 1875 finally stopped it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Victorian	Victorian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sweeps	sweep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	'	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	1875	1875	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | some children |  |  |  | time | as chimney sweeps's climbing boys | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as boy=Attribute |
| 2 | **climb** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | past | a law of 1875 | job |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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