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title: It is a funny, made-up trial, but every piece of it comes from real… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a funny, made-up trial, but every piece of it comes from real history. Who acts: crowd, piece. A sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 1

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It is a funny, made-up trial, but every piece of it comes from real history.

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**Who acts:** crowd, piece · **What happens:** make, be, come · **To what, where:** funny made up trial, real history

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» 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 (crowd, piece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:1
# text = It is a funny, made-up trial, but every piece of it comes from real history.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
8	up	up	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present | crowd | a funny made up trial |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | every piece of crowd |  |  | real history |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from history=Initial\_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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**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): no change. **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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