Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 1

Motor cars were new, noisy and rare, most people still travelled by horse, on foot, by bicycle or by steam train, and washing clothes took a whole day.

Who acts: Motor cars, most people · What happens: be, travel, wash, take · To what, where: foot, clothes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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 (Motor cars, most 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	Motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cars	compound
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 new	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 new	cop
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 noisy	punct
6	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 new	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rare	cc
8	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 new	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 travelled	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 travelled	advmod
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 new	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 horse	case
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 foot	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 foot	case
18	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bicycle	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 bicycle	case
21	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 train	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 train	case
24	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 train	compound
25	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bicycle	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
28	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 took	nsubj
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 washing	obj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 new	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	is	past	Motor cars				new property	tree rules
2	be		Motor cars not said here					tree rules
3	be		Motor cars not said here					tree rules
4	travel	past	most people		foot	still	by horse; by bicycle or steam train	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by horse=Trajectory
5	wash	gerund		clothes				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
6	take	past				day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:1.

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 ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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