--- title: Electric light bulbs became practical around 1880; in 1930 only abou… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Electric light bulbs became practical around 1880; in 1930 only about one US farm in ten had electricity, and about 700 million people still live without it today. Who acts: Electric light bulbs, one US farm, million people. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 ye --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Light, machines and medicine: how the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/65-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day/) / 12 # Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 12 Electric light bulbs became practical around 1880; in 1930 only about one US farm in ten had electricity, and about 700 million people still live without it today. **Who acts:** Electric light bulbs, one US farm, million people · **What happens:** become, have, live · **To what, where:** 1880, electricity, 1930 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 (Electric light bulbs, one US farm, million people), 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:12 # text = Electric light bulbs became practical around 1880; in 1930 only about one US farm in ten had electricity, and about 700 million people still live without it today. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bulbs bulb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 practical practical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 around around ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 1880 1880 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1930 1930 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 700 700 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Electric light bulbs | | | 1880 | | practical *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past | one US farm in ten | electricity | | 1930 | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | | 3 | **live** | present | million people | | | | still; today | without farm | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:12`. **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 ×1, 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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