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title: Children worked in British coal mines until a law of 1842 banned chi… — Coal, oil and gas · tree and pragmatics
description: Children worked in British coal mines until a law of 1842 banned children under ten from working underground. Who acts: Children, law. A sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Coal, oil and gas, sentence 13

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Children worked in British coal mines until a law of 1842 banned children under ten from working underground.

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**Who acts:** Children, law · **What happens:** work, ban · **To what, where:** children, ten

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Coal, oil and gas» of the geography 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:geography:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:13
# text = Children worked in British coal mines until a law of 1842 banned children under ten from working underground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 059-coal-oil-and-gas.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 ×2
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1842	1842	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
18	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | Children |  |  |  |  | in British coal mines | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mine=Theme |
| 2 | **ban** | past | a law of 1842 | children |  | ten |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | a law of 1842 *not said here* |  |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:geography:059-coal-oil-and-gas.lesson:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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