Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 13

Washing clothes by hand once took a whole day each week, mostly for women; whether home machines changed life more than the internet is a real debate.

Who acts: home machines · What happens: wash, take, change, be · To what, where: clothes, life, real debate

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 (home machines), 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	Washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 took	nsubj
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Washing	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 hand	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	nmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 took	advmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 women	punct
13	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	15 women	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 women	case
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 took	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 changed	punct
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	20 changed	mark
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 machines	compound
19	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 changed	nsubj
20	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 debate	csubj
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 changed	obj
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 changed	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 internet	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 internet	det
25	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 more	obl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 debate	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 debate	det
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 debate	amod
29	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		clothes		by hand	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
2	take	past			day; week	for women; once property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for woman=Beneficiary
3	change	past	home machines	life			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
4	is a	present		a real debate			tree rules

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:13.

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): no change. 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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