--- title: Workers formed trade unions to ask together for fair pay, shorter ho… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics description: Workers formed trade unions to ask together for fair pay, shorter hours and safety, and won things like the weekend and the eight-hour day. Who acts: Workers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Workers), 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:12 # text = Workers formed trade unions to ask together for fair pay, shorter hours and safety, and won things like the weekend and the eight-hour day. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 formed form VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 trade trade NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 unions union NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 pay pay NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 weekend weekend NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | past | Workers | trade unions | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location union=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Workers *not said here* | | | | | for fair pay and shorter hours and safety; together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **win** | past | Workers *not said here* | things | | | | like the weekend and the hour day | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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](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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [The Industrial Revolution, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/11/) - next →: [The Industrial Revolution, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/)