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title: Children as young as six worked long hours in mills and mines, and i… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics
description: Children as young as six worked long hours in mills and mines, and in 1833 a British law banned children under nine from working in most textile mills. Who acts: Children, British law. A sentence of the lesson «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The Industrial Revolution, sentence 9

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Children as young as six worked long hours in mills and mines, and in 1833 a British law banned children under nine from working in most textile mills.

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**Who acts:** Children, British law · **What happens:** work, ban · **To what, where:** children, 1833

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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 (Children, British law), 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:9
# text = Children as young as six worked long hours in mills and mines, and in 1833 a British law banned children under nine from working in most textile mills.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
6	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	1833	1833	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	banned	ban	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
25	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
28	textile	textile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **work** | past | Children |  |  |  | hour | in mills and mines | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme |
| 2 | **ban** | past | a British law | children |  | 1833 |  | under nine | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | a British law *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in most textile mills | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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