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title: Workers campaigned for weekends, doctors who said «wash your hands»… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics
description: Workers campaigned for weekends, doctors who said «wash your hands» were laughed at first, and plastic, once a wonder, now litters beaches. Who acts: doctors, plastic. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history course of Mova's
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# Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 11

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Workers campaigned for weekends, doctors who said «wash your hands» were laughed at first, and plastic, once a wonder, now litters beaches.

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**Who acts:** doctors, plastic · **What happens:** campaign, say, wash, laugh, litter · **To what, where:** Workers, hands, doctors, beaches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (doctors, plastic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:11
# text = Workers campaigned for weekends, doctors who said «wash your hands» were laughed at first, and plastic, once a wonder, now litters beaches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	campaigned	campaign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	weekends	weekend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
6	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	litters	litter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **campaign** | past · passive |  | Workers |  |  | weekend |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | doctors |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wash** *in a quote* | infinitive | doctors *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **laugh** | past · passive |  | doctors |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **litter** | present | plastic | beaches |  |  | now |  | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Patient |

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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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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