--- title: In the very year the book came out, 1908, a new law stopped children… — Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the… · tree and pragmatics description: In the very year the book came out, 1908, a new law stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people. Who acts: book, new law. A sentence of the lesson «Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908» of the history course --- [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-1908/6/) [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/) / 6 # Gaols, magistrates and old punishments: from the stocks to the Children Act of 1908, sentence 6 In the very year the book came out, 1908, a new law stopped children under 14 being sent to prison and set up special courts for young people. **Who acts:** book, new law · **What happens:** come out, stop, send, set up · **To what, where:** 1908, children, 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, new law), 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:6 # text = In the very year the book came out, 1908, a new law 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 under under ADP IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nummod 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 courts court NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7: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 | 1908 | | | year | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | past | a new law | children 14 | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality child=Eventuality | | 3 | **send** | gerund · passive | a new law *not said here* | | | prison | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to prison=Destination | | 4 | **set up** | past | a new law *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:6`. **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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