Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 3
Cars had no roof and no windscreen, and roads were dusty, so drivers wore goggles, gauntlets, caps and long coats, and the car's horn really went «poop-poop» when you squeezed its rubber bulb.
Who acts: Cars, roads, drivers, horn, you · What happens: have, be, wear, go, squeeze · To what, where: roof, goggles, poop poop, rubber bulb
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 (Cars, roads, drivers, horn), 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 | Cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 roof | det |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 windscreen | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 windscreen | det |
| 7 | windscreen | windscreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roof | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dusty | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dusty | cc |
| 10 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dusty | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dusty | cop |
| 12 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wore | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 wore | advmod |
| 15 | drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wore | nsubj |
| 16 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dusty | parataxis |
| 17 | goggles | goggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wore | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gauntlets | punct |
| 19 | gauntlets | gauntlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 goggles | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caps | punct |
| 21 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 goggles | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 coats | cc |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coats | amod |
| 24 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 goggles | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 car | det |
| 28 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 horn | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 car | case |
| 30 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 31 | really | really | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wore | conj |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 poop | punct |
| 34 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 poop | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 poop | punct |
| 36 | poop | poop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 poop | punct |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 squeezed | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 squeezed | nsubj |
| 40 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 went | advcl |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 bulb | nmod:poss |
| 42 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bulb | compound |
| 43 | bulb | bulb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 squeezed | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Cars | no roof and no windscreen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | roads | dusty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | drivers | goggles and gauntlets and caps and long coats | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goggle=Source | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the car's horn | poop poop | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | squeeze | past | you | horn's rubber bulb | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulb=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:3.
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. 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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