--- title: The book calls a traveller a «gipsy»; the Romany people came to Brit… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: The book calls a traveller a «gipsy»; the Romany people came to Britain about 500 years ago, and judging a whole people by an old idea, such as «they all love horse-dealing», is unfair. Who acts: book, Romany people, people. 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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 (book, Romany people, 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:15 # text = The book calls a traveller a «gipsy»; the Romany people came to Britain about 500 years ago, and judging a whole people by an old idea, such as «they all love horse-dealing», is unfair. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 traveller traveller NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 gipsy gipsy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Romany romany NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 judging judge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 37 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 dealing dealing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | the book | a traveller | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | the Romany people | | | Britain | | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to britain=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **judge** | gerund | the book *not said here* | a whole people | | | | by a old idea | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present | people | horse dealing | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dealing=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | the book *not said here* | | | | | unfair *property* | tree rules | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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