--- title: Reformers like Elizabeth Fry visited prisoners and showed that peopl… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: Reformers like Elizabeth Fry visited prisoners and showed that people could be helped to change. Who acts: Reformers, people. 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 depende --- [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-1908/5/) [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/) / 5 # Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 5 Reformers like Elizabeth Fry visited prisoners and showed that people could be helped to change. **Who acts:** Reformers, people · **What happens:** visit, show, help, change · **To what, where:** prisoners, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Reformers, people), 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:5 # text = Reformers like Elizabeth Fry visited prisoners and showed that people could be helped to change. # 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 Reformers reformer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 Elizabeth Elizabeth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Fry Fry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 visited visit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | past | Reformers like Elizabeth Fry | prisoners | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Co-Agent | | 2 | **show** | past | Reformers like Elizabeth Fry *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **help** | could · passive | | people | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **change** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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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