--- title: A steam engine had a driver and a fireman, who shovelled coal into t… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: A steam engine had a driver and a fireman, who shovelled coal into the firebox, and a guard who waved a flag and blew a whistle to start the train; riding on the engine, as Toad does, was against the rules. Who acts: steam engine, driver, guard, Toad. 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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 (steam engine, driver, guard, Toad), 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:16 # text = A steam engine had a driver and a fireman, who shovelled coal into the firebox, and a guard who waved a flag and blew a whistle to start the train; riding on the engine, as Toad does, was against the rules. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fireman fireman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shovelled shovel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 13 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 firebox firebox NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 csubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:csubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:nmod 38 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 Toad Toad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 41 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 44 against against ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 47 . . 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 | **have** | past | a steam engine | a driver and a fireman and a guard | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Patient | | 2 | **shovel** | past | a driver and a fireman and a guard | coal | | the firebox | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coal=Theme into firebox=Destination | | 3 | **wave** | past | a guard | a flag | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient | | 4 | **blow** | past | a guard *not said here* | a whistle | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | | 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | a guard *not said here* | the train | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Eventuality | | 6 | **ride** | gerund | | | | the engine | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **do** | present | Toad | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | past | riding | | | | | against the rules | 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:16`. **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 ×3, 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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