Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 19
A gold sovereign was a coin worth one pound; a guinea was worth 21 shillings, and the word was still used for prices long after the coin stopped being made; sixpence was half a shilling.
Who acts: gold sovereign, guinea, coin · What happens: be, use, stop, make · To what, where: worth one pound, worth 21 shillings, word, shilling
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 (gold sovereign, guinea, coin), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sovereign | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sovereign | compound |
| 3 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pound | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pound | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coin | det |
| 6 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sovereign | appos |
| 7 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pound | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pound | nummod |
| 9 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 shillings | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 guinea | det |
| 12 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shillings | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shillings | cop |
| 14 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shillings | amod |
| 15 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 shillings | nummod |
| 16 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pound | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 used | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 used | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 used | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 used | advmod |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 shillings | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 prices | case |
| 25 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 used | obl |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 used | advmod |
| 27 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 stopped | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coin | det |
| 29 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stopped | nsubj |
| 30 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 used | advcl |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 stopped | xcomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 sixpence | punct |
| 34 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pound | appos |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 shilling | cop |
| 36 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 38 shilling | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 shilling | det |
| 38 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sixpence | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pound | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a gold sovereign | worth one pound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a guinea | worth 21 shillings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | past · passive | the word | still | for prices; long property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for price=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | stop | past | the coin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund · passive | the coin not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | a gold sovereign not said here | half shilling | 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:19.
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.
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