Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 16
British money then was pounds, shillings and pence: 12 pennies made a shilling and 20 shillings made a pound; this lasted until 1971, when Britain switched to 100 pence to the pound.
Who acts: British money, 12 pennies, 20 shillings, this, Britain · What happens: be, make, last, switch · To what, where: pounds, shilling, pound
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» 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 (British money, 12 pennies, 20 shillings, this), 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 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 money | amod |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pounds | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pounds | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pounds | cop |
| 5 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shillings | punct |
| 7 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pounds | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pence | cc |
| 9 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pounds | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 pennies | nummod |
| 12 | pennies | penny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pounds | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shilling | det |
| 15 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 17 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 shillings | nummod |
| 18 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shilling | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pound | det |
| 21 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 lasted | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 lasted | nsubj |
| 24 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pounds | parataxis |
| 25 | until | until | ADP | _ | 26 1971 | case |
| 26 | 1971 | 1971 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 lasted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 switched | punct |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 switched | advmod |
| 29 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 switched | nsubj |
| 30 | switched | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pounds | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 pence | case |
| 32 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 pence | nummod |
| 33 | pence | pence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 switched | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 pound | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pound | det |
| 36 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 switched | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pounds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | British money | pounds and shillings and pence | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | 12 pennies | a shilling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shilling=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | past | 20 shillings | a pound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material pound=Product | ||||
| 4 | last | past | this | until 1971 | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | switch | past | Britain | to 100 pence result; to the pound | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pence=Result |
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:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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