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A sentence of the lesson «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns/1/) [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/) / [Toad's Edwardian England: early motor…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns/) / 1 # Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 1 Motor cars were new, noisy and rare, most people still travelled by horse, on foot, by bicycle or by steam train, and washing clothes took a whole day. **Who acts:** Motor cars, most people · **What happens:** be, travel, wash, take · **To what, where:** foot, clothes This is a sentence of the lesson «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» 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 (Motor cars, most people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:1 # text = Motor cars were new, noisy and rare, most people still travelled by horse, on foot, by bicycle or by steam train, and washing clothes took a whole day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 bicycle bicycle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 nsubj _ _ 29 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 28 obj _ _ 30 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is** | past | Motor cars | | | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Motor cars *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Motor cars *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **travel** | past | most people | | | foot | still | by horse; by bicycle or steam train | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by horse=Trajectory | | 5 | **wash** | gerund | | clothes | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 6 | **take** | past | | | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:083-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns.lesson:1`. **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, 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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