Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 15

The book calls a traveller a «gipsy»; the Romany people came to Britain about 500 years ago, and judging a whole people by an old idea, such as «they all love horse-dealing», is unfair.

Who acts: book, Romany people, people · What happens: call, come, judge, love, be · To what, where: traveller, Britain, whole people, horse dealing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (book, Romany people, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	nsubj
3	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 traveller	det
5	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gipsy	det
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 gipsy	punct
8	gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calls	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 gipsy	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	Romany	romany	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	compound
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 calls	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Britain	case
16	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 500	advmod
18	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ago	obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 judging	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 judging	cc
23	judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 calls	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 people	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 judging	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 idea	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 idea	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 idea	amod
30	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 judging	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 such	punct
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 idea	amod
33	as	as	ADP	_	32 such	fixed
34	«	«	PUNCT	_	37 love	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 love	nsubj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 they	det
37	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calls	parataxis
38	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dealing	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 horse	punct
40	dealing	dealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 love	obj
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 love	punct
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 unfair	punct
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 unfair	cop
44	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calls	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calls	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	the book	a traveller			tree rules
2	come	past	the Romany people		Britain	ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to britain=Initial_Location
3	judge	gerund	the book not said here	a whole people		by a old idea	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value
4	love in a quote	present	people	horse dealing			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dealing=Stimulus
5	is	present	the book not said here			unfair 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:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:15.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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