--- title: Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics description: Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers. Who acts: pockets. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/8/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/) / 8 # Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 8 Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers. **Who acts:** pockets · **What happens:** patent, register, stop, tear · **To what, where:** Metal rivets, 1873, pockets, work trousers This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology 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 (pockets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:8 # text = Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.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 ×1 1 Metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 rivets rivet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 jeans jeans NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 2 nmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 patented patent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 registered register VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 invention invention NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1873 1873 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 17 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 tearing tear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 miners miner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod:poss _ _ 21 ' 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 trousers trousers NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **patent** | past · passive | | Metal rivets on jeans | | 1873 | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **register** | participle | | | | | | as a invention *result* | vn patent-101 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent as invention=Result | | 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | pockets | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pocket=Eventuality | | 4 | **tear** | gerund | pockets *not said here* | | | miners's work trousers | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trousers=Trajectory | 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:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:8`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/7/) - next →: [Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/5-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers/)