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title: Homes got telephones during the 1900s and TV mostly from the 1950s;… — How we got here: the big steps on one long timel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Homes got telephones during the 1900s and TV mostly from the 1950s; the World Wide Web was made in 1991, and most homes in rich countries got the internet around 2000. Who acts: Homes, most homes. A sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of
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# How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline, sentence 14

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Homes got telephones during the 1900s and TV mostly from the 1950s; the World Wide Web was made in 1991, and most homes in rich countries got the internet around 2000.

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**Who acts:** Homes, most homes · **What happens:** get, make · **To what, where:** telephones, World Wide Web, 1991, internet, 2000

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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 (Homes, most homes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:14
# text = Homes got telephones during the 1900s and TV mostly from the 1950s; the World Wide Web was made in 1991, and most homes in rich countries got the internet around 2000.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	telephones	telephone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	1900s	1900	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	1950s	1950	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	Wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Web	web	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
25	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	internet	internet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	around	around	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Homes | telephones |  |  | during the 1900s and TV and the 1950s |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer telephone=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | the World Wide Web |  | 1991 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **get** | past | most homes in rich countries | the internet |  | 2000 |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer internet=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:061-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline.lesson:14`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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