--- title: Early cars had open tops and roads were mostly dust and stones, so m… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: Early cars had open tops and roads were mostly dust and stones, so motorists wore goggles, caps, gauntlets (long gloves) and long dust coats, just like Toad's «motor-clothes». Who acts: Early cars, roads, motorists. 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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 (Early cars, roads, motorists), 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:10 # text = Early cars had open tops and roads were mostly dust and stones, so motorists wore goggles, caps, gauntlets (long gloves) and long dust coats, just like Toad's «motor-clothes». # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 motorists motorist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 goggles goggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 caps cap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 gauntlets gauntlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:appos 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 33 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 36 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 38 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 16 obl _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | past | Early cars | open tops | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | roads | dust and stones | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wear** | past | motorists | goggles and caps and gauntlets and long gloves and long dust coats | | | | like Toad's motor clothes | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goggle=Source | 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:10`. **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 ×2, 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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