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title: Cloth became cheap, but mill and mine work was long and hard, and ch… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Cloth became cheap, but mill and mine work was long and hard, and children as young as six worked in them, which is why reformers fought for laws that sent children to school instead. Who acts: Cloth, mill, children, laws. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 2

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Cloth became cheap, but mill and mine work was long and hard, and children as young as six worked in them, which is why reformers fought for laws that sent children to school instead.

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**Who acts:** Cloth, mill, children, laws · **What happens:** become, be, work, send · **To what, where:** children, school

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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 (Cloth, mill, children, laws), 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:2
# text = Cloth became cheap, but mill and mine work was long and hard, and children as young as six worked in them, which is why reformers fought for laws that sent children to school instead.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cloth	Cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	mine	mine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	reformers	reformer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **become** | past | Cloth |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | mill and mine work |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | mill and mine work *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | past | children |  |  |  |  | in mill | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in they=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for laws; fight *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | past | laws | children |  | school |  | instead *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to school=Destination |

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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:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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