Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 19
Until 1846, when ether was shown working in Boston, most surgery was done on patients who were awake.
Who acts: patients · What happens: show, work, do, be · To what, where: ether, most surgery, patients
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 (patients), 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 | Until | until | ADP | _ | 2 1846 | case |
| 2 | 1846 | 1846 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 shown | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shown | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 shown | advmod |
| 5 | ether | ether | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shown | aux:pass |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 shown | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Boston | case |
| 10 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 working | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 surgery | amod |
| 13 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 done | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shown | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 patients | case |
| 17 | patients | patient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 done | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 awake | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 awake | cop |
| 20 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 patients | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past · passive | ether | until 1846 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | in Boston | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in boston=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | most surgery | patients | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | patients | awake property | 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:19.
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 ×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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