--- title: The biggest change is the saddest to remember: around 1800 about fou… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: The biggest change is the saddest to remember: around 1800 about four in ten children died before age five, and today about four in a hundred do. Who acts: biggest change. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (biggest change), 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:8 # text = The biggest change is the saddest to remember: around 1800 about four in ten children died before age five, and today about four in a hundred do. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 saddest sad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 10 around around ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1800 1800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 parataxis _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 17 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:det 28 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the biggest change | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **die** | participle | | ten children *not said here* | | | before age | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:8`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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