--- title: The Children Act of 1908, the year the book came out, stopped childr… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: The Children Act of 1908, the year the book came out, stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people. Who acts: book, Children Act. A sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Gaols, magistrates and old punishments…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/) / 17 # Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 17 The Children Act of 1908, the year the book came out, stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people. **Who acts:** book, Children Act · **What happens:** come out, stop, send, set up · **To what, where:** year, children, 14, prison, special courts 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 (book, Children Act), 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:17 # text = The Children Act of 1908, the year the book came out, stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Children Children PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Act Act PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:mark 17 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | the book | the year *not said here* | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient year=Result | | 2 | **stop** | past | the Children Act of 1908 | children | | 14 | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector child=Eventuality | | 3 | **send** | gerund · passive | the Children Act of 1908 *not said here* | | | prison | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to prison=Destination | | 4 | **set up** | participle | the Children Act of 1908 *not said here* | special courts | | | | for young people | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent court=Patient for people=Beneficiary | 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:17`. **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): 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. 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