Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 10

Early cars had open tops and roads were mostly dust and stones, so motorists wore goggles, caps, gauntlets (long gloves) and long dust coats, just like Toad's «motor-clothes».

Who acts: Early cars, roads, motorists · What happens: have, be, wear · To what, where: open tops, dust, goggles

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 (Early cars, roads, motorists), 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	Early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tops	amod
5	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dust	cc
7	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dust	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dust	cop
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 dust	advmod
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stones	cc
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dust	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wore	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 wore	advmod
15	motorists	motorist	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wore	nsubj
16	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
17	goggles	goggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wore	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caps	punct
19	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 goggles	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gauntlets	punct
21	gauntlets	gauntlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 goggles	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 gloves	punct
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 gloves	amod
24	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gauntlets	conj
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 gloves	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 coats	cc
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coats	amod
28	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coats	compound
29	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 goggles	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 clothes	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	38 clothes	advmod
32	like	like	ADP	_	38 clothes	case
33	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 clothes	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Toad	case
35	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 clothes	punct
36	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 clothes	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 motor	punct
38	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 wore	obl
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 clothes	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Early cars	open tops		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient
2	is a	past	roads	dust and stones	mostly property	tree rules
3	wear	past	motorists	goggles and caps and gauntlets and long gloves and long dust coats	like Toad's motor clothes	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goggle=Source

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:10.

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 ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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