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title: The first public steam railway opened in England in 1825, and in 183… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: The first public steam railway opened in England in 1825, and in 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway began running. Who acts: first public steam railway, Liverpool Railway. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 10

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The first public steam railway opened in England in 1825, and in 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway began running.

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**Who acts:** first public steam railway, Liverpool Railway · **What happens:** open, begin, run · **To what, where:** England, 1830

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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 (first public steam railway, Liverpool Railway), 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:10
# text = The first public steam railway opened in England in 1825, and in 1830 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway began running.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1825	1825	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1830	1830	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	Railway	railway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **open** | past | the first public steam railway |  |  | England |  | in 1825 | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Liverpool Railway |  |  | 1830 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | the Liverpool Railway *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:10`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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