--- title: Washing clothes by hand once took a whole day each week, mostly for… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Washing clothes by hand once took a whole day each week, mostly for women; whether home machines changed life more than the internet is a real debate. Who acts: home machines. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» of the history course o --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 13 Washing clothes by hand once took a whole day each week, mostly for women; whether home machines changed life more than the internet is a real debate. **Who acts:** home machines · **What happens:** wash, take, change, be · **To what, where:** clothes, life, real debate 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 (home machines), 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:13 # text = Washing clothes by hand once took a whole day each week, mostly for women; whether home machines changed life more than the internet is a real debate. # 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): no change 1 Washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 nsubj _ _ 2 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 1 obj _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 csubj _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 debate debate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | gerund | | clothes | | | | by hand | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 2 | **take** | past | | | | | day; week | for women; once *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for woman=Beneficiary | | 3 | **change** | past | home machines | life | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a real debate | | | | | tree rules | 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:13`. **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): no change. **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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