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title: For most of history most children worked; laws making school require… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: For most of history most children worked; laws making school required for all came in many countries in the 1800s and 1900s, and about 250 million children are still out of school today. Who acts: most children, laws, school, million children. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: sch
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 15

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For most of history most children worked; laws making school required for all came in many countries in the 1800s and 1900s, and about 250 million children are still out of school today.

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**Who acts:** most children, laws, school, million children · **What happens:** work, make, require, come, be · **To what, where:** school, many countries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 (most children, laws, school, million children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:15
# text = For most of history most children worked; laws making school required for all came in many countries in the 1800s and 1900s, and about 250 million children are still out of school today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	1900s	1900	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	compound	_	_
28	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
35	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **work** | past | most children |  |  |  |  | for most of history | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for most=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | laws *not said here* | school |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | participle | school *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for all | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | laws |  |  | many countries | today | in the 1800s and 1900s and school | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | million children |  |  | school | still |  | 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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**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 ×4, 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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