--- title: Small things changed daily life too: clay pots for soup, horses for… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: Small things changed daily life too: clay pots for soup, horses for speed, clocks for trains, glasses for old eyes and bicycles that Amara's mum calls «proper rad», meaning really cool, because they gave women freedom to travel on their own. Who acts: Small things, mum, things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Small things, mum, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:9 # text = Small things changed daily life too: clay pots for soup, horses for speed, clocks for trains, glasses for old eyes and bicycles that Amara's mum calls «proper rad», meaning really cool, because they gave women freedom to travel on their own. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): R5-strong ×4 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 trains train NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bicycles bicycle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 28 Amara Amara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 rad rad NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 xcomp _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 38 really really ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 because because SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 44 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:compound 45 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl _ _ 48 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past | Small things | daily life | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 2 | **call** | present | Amara's mum | bicycles | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | gerund | Small things *not said here* | | | | | cool *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | things *= thing* | freedom | women | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient freedom=Theme | | 5 | **travel** | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | freedom *not said here* | | things's own | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory | 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](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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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): R5-strong ×4. **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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