--- title: Until 1846, when ether was shown working in Boston, most surgery was… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Until 1846, when ether was shown working in Boston, most surgery was done on patients who were awake. Who acts: patients. 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 with its dependency tree and t --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 19 Until 1846, when ether was shown working in Boston, most surgery was done on patients who were awake. **Who acts:** patients · **What happens:** show, work, do, be · **To what, where:** ether, most surgery, patients 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 (patients), 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:19 # text = Until 1846, when ether was shown working in Boston, most surgery was done on patients who were awake. # 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 ×1 1 Until until ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1846 1846 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 ether ether NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Boston Boston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 surgery surgery NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 patients patient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past · passive | | ether | | | until 1846 | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **work** | gerund | | | | | | in Boston | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in boston=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past · passive | | most surgery | | patients | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | past | patients | | | | | awake *property* | 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:19`. **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 ×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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