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title: Romany families had lived and travelled in painted horse-drawn wagon… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics
description: Romany families had lived and travelled in painted horse-drawn wagons for many years, and in 1907 the Caravan Club was started in Britain, so caravan holidays for fun, like Toad's, were a new fashion. Who acts: Romany families, caravan holidays. A sentence of the lesson «Toad's Edwardian England: ea
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# Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns, sentence 14

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Romany families had lived and travelled in painted horse-drawn wagons for many years, and in 1907 the Caravan Club was started in Britain, so caravan holidays for fun, like Toad's, were a new fashion.

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**Who acts:** Romany families, caravan holidays · **What happens:** live, travel, paint, draw, start, be · **To what, where:** painted drawn wagons, Caravan Club, 1907, new fashion

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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 (Romany families, caravan holidays), 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:14
# text = Romany families had lived and travelled in painted horse-drawn wagons for many years, and in 1907 the Caravan Club was started in Britain, so caravan holidays for fun, like Toad's, were a new fashion.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Romany	romany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	travelled	travel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	wagons	wagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Caravan	caravan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	Club	club	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
29	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **live** | past · perfect | Romany families |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | participle | Romany families *not said here* |  |  | painted drawn wagons | year |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wagon=Trajectory |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **start** | past · passive |  | the Caravan Club |  | 1907 |  | in Britain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Toad's caravan holidays for fun | a new fashion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R8-pos-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.

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