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description: Early factory workers often worked 12 hours or more, six days a week; workers campaigned, and the 8-hour day and two-day weekend spread in the early 1900s. Who acts: Early factory workers, workers, hour day. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a nor
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# Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 23

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Early factory workers often worked 12 hours or more, six days a week; workers campaigned, and the 8-hour day and two-day weekend spread in the early 1900s.

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**Who acts:** Early factory workers, workers, hour day · **What happens:** work, campaign, spread · **To what, where:** early 1900s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (Early factory workers, workers, hour day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:23
# text = Early factory workers often worked 12 hours or more, six days a week; workers campaigned, and the 8-hour day and two-day weekend spread in the early 1900s.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	campaigned	campaign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound
29	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound
30	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	1900s	1900	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Early factory workers |  |  |  | day; hour | often *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **campaign** | past | workers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spread** | past | the hour day |  |  | the early 1900s |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1900=Location |

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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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:23`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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