"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, sentence 4

When Grandad was 10, in 1980, ordinary families had no internet at all; in the 1990s it came down the phone line through a screeching dial-up modem, and nobody could use the house phone while you were online.

Who acts: Grandad, ordinary families, internet, nobody · What happens: be, have, come down, screech, use · To what, where: 10, internet, 1980, phone line, 1990s, house phone

This is a sentence of the lesson «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» of the world 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 (Grandad, ordinary families, internet, nobody), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 10	mark
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 10	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 10	cop
4	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 had	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 1980	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1980	case
7	1980	1980	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 families	punct
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 families	amod
10	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 internet	det
13	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 internet	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 1990s	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 1990s	det
19	1990s	1990s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	21 came	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	parataxis
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 line	det
24	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 line	compound
25	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	through	through	ADP	_	32 modem	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 modem	det
28	screeching	screech	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 modem	amod
29	dial	dial	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 modem	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 dial	punct
31	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dial	compound
32	modem	modem	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 use	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 use	cc
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 use	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 use	aux
37	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 phone	det
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 phone	compound
40	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 use	obj
41	while	while	SCONJ	_	43 were	mark
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 were	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 use	advcl
44	online	online	ADV	_	43 were	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	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	is a	past	Grandad	10			tree rules
2	have	past	ordinary families	no internet	1980	at all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent internet=Patient
3	come down	past	internet	the phone line	the 1990s	through a screeching dial modem; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through modem=Initial_Location
4	screech	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use	could	nobody	the house phone			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient

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:world:126-in-the-olden-days.lesson:4.

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 ×4, 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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