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title: Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much fa… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes. Who acts: Spinning machines, ordinary people. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 8

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Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes.

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**Who acts:** Spinning machines, ordinary people · **What happens:** weave, make, afford · **To what, where:** cloth, more clothes

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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 (Spinning machines, ordinary people), 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:8
# text = Spinning and weaving machines in big cotton mills made cloth much faster and cheaper, so ordinary people could afford more clothes.
# 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): no change
1	Spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | gerund | Spinning machines in big cotton mills *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Spinning machines in big cotton mills | cloth |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloth=Product |
| 3 | **afford** | could | ordinary people | more clothes |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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