--- title: In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames in London smelled so bad… — Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers… · tree and pragmatics description: In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames in London smelled so bad from waste that it was called the Great Stink; the engineer Joseph Bazalgette then built a huge sewer system, mostly finished by the 1870s and still in use. Who acts: River Thames, engineer. 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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 (River Thames, engineer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.lesson:8 # text = In the hot summer of 1858 the River Thames in London smelled so bad from waste that it was called the Great Stink; the engineer Joseph Bazalgette then built a huge sewer system, mostly finished by the 1870s and still in use. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1858 1858 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:unmarked 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 smelled smell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 waste waste NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Stink stink PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 engineer engineer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 Joseph Joseph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 28 Bazalgette Bazalgette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 sewer sewer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 1870s 1870 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 37 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 still still ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:conj 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **smell** | past | the River Thames in London | | | | summer | bad *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | past · passive | | Thames | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **build** | past | the engineer | a huge sewer system | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset system=Product | | 4 | **finish** | participle | | a huge sewer system *not said here* | | | | by the 1870s; mostly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:073-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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