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title: Bathing machines were wooden huts on wheels that were pulled into th… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bathing machines were wooden huts on wheels that were pulled into the sea, so that people could change inside and step straight into the water without being seen. Who acts: Bathing machines, people. A sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimne
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# Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 15

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Bathing machines were wooden huts on wheels that were pulled into the sea, so that people could change inside and step straight into the water without being seen.

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**Who acts:** Bathing machines, people · **What happens:** be, pull, change, step, see · **To what, where:** wooden huts, wheels, sea, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» 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 (Bathing machines, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:15
# text = Bathing machines were wooden huts on wheels that were pulled into the sea, so that people could change inside and step straight into the water without being seen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bathing machines | wooden huts |  | wheels |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull** | past · passive |  | wheels |  | the sea |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | could | people |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **step** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | gerund · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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.

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**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:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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