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title: Michael Faraday learned how to make electricity with magnets in 1831… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Michael Faraday learned how to make electricity with magnets in 1831, and Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan and others made electric light practical around 1880. Who acts: Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school wit
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 13

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Michael Faraday learned how to make electricity with magnets in 1831, and Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan and others made electric light practical around 1880.

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**Who acts:** Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison · **What happens:** learn, make · **To what, where:** electricity, 1831, electric light, 1880

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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 (Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison), 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:13
# text = Michael Faraday learned how to make electricity with magnets in 1831, and Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan and others made electric light practical around 1880.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Faraday	Faraday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1831	1831	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Edison	Edison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	Swan	Swan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	practical	practical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	around	around	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	1880	1880	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **learn** | past | Michael Faraday |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Michael Faraday *not said here* | electricity |  | 1831 |  | with magnets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product |
| 3 | **make** | past | Thomas Edison and Joseph and others | electric light |  | 1880 |  | practical *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product |

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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: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 ×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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