--- title: Ordinary people helped too, like a whole school deciding not to buy… — Slavery and its abolition · tree and pragmatics description: Ordinary people helped too, like a whole school deciding not to buy one brand of sweets: in Britain thousands stopped buying slave-grown sugar and signed petitions until slavery was banned. Who acts: Ordinary people, whole school, thousands. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ordinary people, whole school, thousands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:3 # text = Ordinary people helped too, like a whole school deciding not to buy one brand of sweets: in Britain thousands stopped buying slave-grown sugar and signed petitions until slavery was banned. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 031-slavery-and-its-abolition.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 deciding decide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 22 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 slave slave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 signed sign VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 petitions petition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | past | Ordinary people | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **decide** | gerund | a whole school | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a whole school *not said here* | one brand of sweets | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | past | thousands | Britain | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **buy** | gerund | thousands *not said here* | grown sugar | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sign** | past | thousands *not said here* | petitions | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Destination | | 8 | **ban** | past · passive | | slavery | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 9 | **brand** | | | sweets | | | | | nom brand «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:031-slavery-and-its-abolition.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Slavery and its abolition, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/2/) - next →: [Slavery and its abolition, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/)