Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 11

Workers campaigned for weekends, doctors who said «wash your hands» were laughed at first, and plastic, once a wonder, now litters beaches.

Who acts: doctors, plastic · What happens: campaign, say, wash, laugh, litter · To what, where: Workers, hands, doctors, beaches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (doctors, plastic), 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	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 campaigned	nsubj:pass
2	campaigned	campaign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 weekends	case
4	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 campaigned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laughed	nsubj:pass
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doctors	acl:relcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 wash	punct
10	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	xcomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wash	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 wash	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	aux:pass
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 campaigned	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 first	case
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 laughed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 plastic	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 litters	cc
20	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 litters	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wonder	punct
22	once	once	ADV	_	24 wonder	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wonder	det
24	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plastic	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beaches	punct
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 litters	advmod
27	litters	litter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	conj
28	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 litters	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 campaigned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	campaign	past · passive		Workers	weekend	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	doctors			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wash in a quote	infinitive	doctors not said here	your hands		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	laugh	past · passive		doctors		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	litter	present	plastic	beaches	now	vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient

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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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