--- title: Long ago people really were locked in the stocks so neighbours could… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Long ago people really were locked in the stocks so neighbours could jeer and throw rotten food at them, and some castles really were used as gaols. Who acts: neighbours. A sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history cou --- [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-1908/2/) [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/) / 2 # Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 2 Long ago people really were locked in the stocks so neighbours could jeer and throw rotten food at them, and some castles really were used as gaols. **Who acts:** neighbours · **What happens:** lock, jeer, throw, use · **To what, where:** people, stocks, rotten food, castles 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 (neighbours), 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:2 # text = Long ago people really were locked in the stocks so neighbours could jeer and throw rotten food at them, and some castles really were used as gaols. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 ago ago ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 stocks stock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 jeer jeer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 castles castle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 really really ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 gaols gaol NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock** | past · passive | | people | | the stocks | | ago *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **jeer** | could | neighbours | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **throw** | infinitive | neighbours *not said here* | rotten food | | | | at neighbours *= neighbour* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent food=Theme at they=Destination | | 4 | **use** | past · passive | | some castles | | | | as gaols | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as gaol=Attribute | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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