Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 12
From 1904 a new law in Britain set a speed limit of 20 miles an hour, made every car carry a number plate and made drivers get a licence, though there was no driving test until 1935.
Who acts: new law, car, drivers, driving test · What happens: set, make, carry, get, be · To what, where: speed limit, 1904, car, number plate, drivers, licence
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 (new law, car, drivers, driving test), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 1904 | case |
| 2 | 1904 | 1904 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 set | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 law | amod |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Britain | case |
| 7 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 law | nmod |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 limit | det |
| 10 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 limit | compound |
| 11 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 miles | case |
| 13 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 miles | nummod |
| 14 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 limit | nmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hour | det |
| 16 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 miles | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 car | det |
| 20 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 plate | det |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plate | compound |
| 24 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 27 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obj |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 made | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 licence | det |
| 30 | licence | licence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 was | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 was | mark |
| 33 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 34 was | expl |
| 34 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | advcl |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 test | det |
| 36 | driving | driving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 test | compound |
| 37 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 was | nsubj |
| 38 | until | until | ADP | _ | 39 1935 | case |
| 39 | 1935 | 1935 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 was | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | 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 | set | past | a new law in Britain | a speed limit of 20 miles a hour | 1904 | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient limit=Result | |||
| 2 | make | past | a new law in Britain not said here | every car | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | every car not said here | a number plate | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | a new law in Britain not said here | drivers | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | drivers not said here | a licence | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer licence=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | be | past | no driving test | there | until 1935 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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