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title: The first steam engines pumped water out of coal mines; more coal po… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: The first steam engines pumped water out of coal mines; more coal powered factories and railways, people moved to the towns, and crowded, dirty towns suffered from cholera. Who acts: first steam engines, more coal, people, crowded dirty towns. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect cha
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 16

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The first steam engines pumped water out of coal mines; more coal powered factories and railways, people moved to the towns, and crowded, dirty towns suffered from cholera.

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**Who acts:** first steam engines, more coal, people, crowded dirty towns · **What happens:** pump, power, move, suffer · **To what, where:** water, coal mines, factories, towns, cholera

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» 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 (first steam engines, more coal, people, crowded dirty towns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:16
# text = The first steam engines pumped water out of coal mines; more coal powered factories and railways, people moved to the towns, and crowded, dirty towns suffered from cholera.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pumped	pump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mines	mine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	powered	power	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	factories	factory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	railways	railway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	cholera	cholera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pump** | past | the first steam engines | water |  | coal mines |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out mine=Destination |
| 2 | **power** | past | more coal | factories and railways |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | past | people |  |  | the towns |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to town=Trajectory |
| 4 | **suffer** | past | crowded dirty towns |  |  | cholera |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:086-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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