Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 9

Small things changed daily life too: clay pots for soup, horses for speed, clocks for trains, glasses for old eyes and bicycles that Amara's mum calls «proper rad», meaning really cool, because they gave women freedom to travel on their own.

Who acts: Small things, mum, things · What happens: change, call, mean, give, travel · To what, where: daily life, bicycles, freedom, women, own · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (Small things, mum, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changed	nsubj
3	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	amod
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 changed	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 pots	punct
8	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pots	compound
9	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 things	appos
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 soup	case
11	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pots	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 horses	punct
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pots	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 speed	case
15	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horses	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clocks	punct
17	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pots	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 trains	case
19	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clocks	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glasses	punct
21	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pots	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glasses	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bicycles	cc
26	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eyes	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 calls	obj
28	Amara	Amara	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 mum	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Amara	case
30	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 calls	nsubj
31	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bicycles	acl:relcl
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 rad	punct
33	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rad	amod
34	rad	rad	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 calls	xcomp
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	34 rad	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 meaning	punct
37	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 things	acl
38	really	really	ADV	_	39 cool	advmod
39	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 meaning	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 gave	punct
41	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 gave	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 gave	nsubj
43	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cool	advcl
44	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 gave	iobj
45	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 gave	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 travel	mark
47	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 freedom	acl
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 own	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 own	nmod:poss
50	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 travel	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 things	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past	Small things	daily life				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
2	call	present	Amara's mum	bicycles				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
3	mean	gerund	Small things not said here				cool property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	things = thing	freedom	women			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient freedom=Theme
5	travel	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here	freedom not said here		things's own		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=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, 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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:9.

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 ×4. 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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