Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 12

Electric light bulbs became practical around 1880; in 1930 only about one US farm in ten had electricity, and about 700 million people still live without it today.

Who acts: Electric light bulbs, one US farm, million people · What happens: become, have, live · To what, where: 1880, electricity, 1930

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 (Electric light bulbs, one US farm, million people), 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	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bulbs	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulbs	compound
3	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 1880	case
7	1880	1880	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 became	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1930	case
10	1930	1930	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 had	obl
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 farm	nummod
14	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 farm	compound
15	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 ten	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 farm	nmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	parataxis
19	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 live	cc
22	about	about	ADV	_	24 million	advmod
23	700	700	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 million	compound
24	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 people	nummod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	nsubj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 live	advmod
27	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 had	conj
28	without	without	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 live	obl
30	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 live	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Electric light bulbs		1880		practical property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	one US farm in ten	electricity	1930			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient
3	live	present	million people			still; today	without farm	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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 ×1, 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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