--- title: What really happened: Britain banned slavery in most of its empire i… — Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and chil… · tree and pragmatics description: What really happened: Britain banned slavery in most of its empire in 1834, the US in 1865, Brazil in 1888 and Mauritania only in 1981, and forced labour still happens illegally today. Who acts: Britain, forced labour. 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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 (Britain, forced labour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:4 # text = What really happened: Britain banned slavery in most of its empire in 1834, the US in 1865, Brazil in 1888 and Mauritania only in 1981, and forced labour still happens illegally today. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.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 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 banned ban VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 slavery slavery NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1834 1834 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 1865 1865 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Brazil Brazil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1888 1888 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Mauritania Mauritania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 26 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 flat _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 35 illegally illegally ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ban** | past | Britain and the US in 1865 and Brazil and Mauritania | slavery | | slavery's most empire | | in 1834; in 1888 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer slavery=Theme | | 3 | **force** | participle | | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **happen** | present | forced labour | | | | still; today | illegally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:069-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights.lesson:4`. **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. **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. 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