Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 9

In 1908 only quite rich people owned motor cars; most people walked, cycled, rode in horse-drawn carts and buses or took the train.

Who acts: rich people, most people · What happens: own, walk, cycle, ride, draw, take · To what, where: motor cars, 1908, drawn carts, train

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 (rich people, most 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1908	case
2	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 owned	obl
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 people	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 rich	advmod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 owned	nsubj
7	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cars	compound
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 owned	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 walked	punct
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walked	nsubj
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 owned	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cycled	punct
15	cycled	cycle	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rode	punct
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 horse	case
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rode	obl
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 carts	punct
21	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 carts	amod
22	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rode	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 buses	cc
24	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 carts	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 took	cc
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walked	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 train	det
28	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 owned	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	own	past	rich people	motor cars	1908		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot car=Theme
2	walk	past	most people				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cycle	past	most people not said here				vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	past	most people not said here	drawn carts and buses		in horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	draw	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past	most people not said here	the train			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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