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title: From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with m… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with machines in big factories instead of by hand at home, and life changed more than at any time since the first farms. Who acts: people, life. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary 
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 0

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From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with machines in big factories instead of by hand at home, and life changed more than at any time since the first farms.

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**Who acts:** people, life · **What happens:** begin, make, change · **To what, where:** 1760, things, big factories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» 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 (people, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:0
# text = From about 1760, first in Britain, people began making things with machines in big factories instead of by hand at home, and life changed more than at any time since the first farms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 030-the-industrial-revolution.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	1760	1760	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	since	since	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **begin** | past | people |  |  | 1760 in Britain |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | people *not said here* | things |  | big factories |  | with machines; instead hand; at home | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 3 | **change** | past | life |  |  |  | since the first farms; time |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:history:030-the-industrial-revolution.lesson:0`.

**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, R8-pos-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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