--- title: In many Victorian prisons prisoners did hard labour, such as walking… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: In many Victorian prisons prisoners did hard labour, such as walking for hours on a treadwheel, a huge turning wheel of steps, which is where the word «treadmill» comes from. Who acts: prisoners, hard labour, word. 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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 (prisoners, hard labour, word), 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:13 # text = In many Victorian prisons prisoners did hard labour, such as walking for hours on a treadwheel, a huge turning wheel of steps, which is where the word «treadmill» comes from. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Victorian victorian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 prisons prison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 treadwheel treadwheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 turning turning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 acl:relcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 treadmill treadmill NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 34 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl:relcl _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 34 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | prisoners | hard labour and a huge turning wheel of steps | | many Victorian prisons | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Eventuality | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | prisoners *not said here* | | | a treadwheel | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on treadwheel=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | present | hard labour and a huge turning wheel of steps | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | present | the word | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:084-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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