Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 14

Electric fridges became common in American homes by about 1950 and in many other countries later; before, people shopped often and kept food cool in cellars or with ice.

Who acts: Electric fridges, people · What happens: become, shop, keep · To what, where: food, cellars

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 fridges, 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	2 fridges	amod
2	fridges	fridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 homes	case
6	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 homes	amod
7	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 common	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 1950	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 1950	advmod
10	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 became	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 later	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 countries	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 countries	amod
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 countries	amod
15	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 later	obl:unmarked
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 1950	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 shopped	punct
18	before	before	ADV	_	21 shopped	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 before	punct
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shopped	nsubj
21	shopped	shop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	parataxis
22	often	often	ADV	_	21 shopped	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kept	cc
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shopped	conj
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obj
26	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kept	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 cellars	case
28	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 kept	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 ice	cc
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 ice	case
31	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cellars	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 cool	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Electric fridges			by 1950; common property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	shop	past	people			before, often property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	people not said here	food	cellars or ice	cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in cellar=Location

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:14.

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, R8-pos-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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