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title: Steam engines burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed piston… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Steam engines burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed pistons that powered factories, trains and ships. Who acts: Steam engines, steam, pistons. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 7

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Steam engines burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed pistons that powered factories, trains and ships.

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**Who acts:** Steam engines, steam, pistons · **What happens:** burn, boil, push, power · **To what, where:** coal, water, pistons, 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 (Steam engines, steam, pistons), 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:7
# text = Steam engines burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed pistons that powered factories, trains and ships.
# 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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	NN	_	2	compound	_	_
2	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	pistons	piston	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	powered	power	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
20	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
21	.	.	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 | **burn** | past | Steam engines | coal |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coal=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | to-infinitive | Steam engines *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **push** | past | the steam | pistons |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piston=Theme |
| 4 | **power** | past | pistons | factories and trains and ships |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, R3-conj-first ×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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