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title: Railways needed timetables, so from the 1840s British railways used… — Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Railways needed timetables, so from the 1840s British railways used London time everywhere, and towns gave up their own local clock times. Who acts: Railways, British railways, towns. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★» of the history course of Mova's primary school with
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# Olympiad: cause and effect chains ★★★, sentence 18

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Railways needed timetables, so from the 1840s British railways used London time everywhere, and towns gave up their own local clock times.

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**Who acts:** Railways, British railways, towns · **What happens:** need, use, give up · **To what, where:** timetables, 1840s

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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 (Railways, British railways, 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:18
# text = Railways needed timetables, so from the 1840s British railways used London time everywhere, and towns gave up their own local clock times.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Railways	railway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	timetables	timetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	1840s	1840	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
9	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	railways	railway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked
14	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | Railways | timetables |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot timetable=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | British railways |  |  | the 1840s | time | everywhere *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give up** | past | towns |  |  |  | time |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:18`.

**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 ×2. **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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