--- title: Electric fridges became common in American homes by about 1950 and i… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Electric fridges became common in American homes by about 1950 and in many other countries later; before, people shopped often and kept food cool in cellars or with ice. Who acts: Electric fridges, people. A sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a norma --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 14 Electric fridges became common in American homes by about 1950 and in many other countries later; before, people shopped often and kept food cool in cellars or with ice. **Who acts:** Electric fridges, people · **What happens:** become, shop, keep · **To what, where:** food, cellars 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 fridges, 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:14 # text = Electric fridges became common in American homes by about 1950 and in many other countries later; before, people shopped often and kept food cool in cellars or with ice. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fridges fridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 1950 1950 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 before before ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 shopped shop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 cellars cellar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | Electric fridges | | | | | by 1950; common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **shop** | past | people | | | | | before, often *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | past | people *not said here* | food | | cellars or ice | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in cellar=Location | 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: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): R5-strong ×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. 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