--- title: Before washing machines, Monday was usually wash day: clothes were b… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: Before washing machines, Monday was usually wash day: clothes were boiled in a big tub called a copper, scrubbed on a washboard, squeezed through a mangle with two rollers and pressed with heavy irons heated on the stove. Who acts: Monday, big tub. 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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 (Monday, big tub), 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:17 # text = Before washing machines, Monday was usually wash day: clothes were boiled in a big tub called a copper, scrubbed on a washboard, squeezed through a mangle with two rollers and pressed with heavy irons heated on the stove. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Monday Monday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tub tub NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 scrubbed scrub VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 washboard washboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mangle mangle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 rollers roller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 pressed press VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 irons iron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 heated heat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 stove stove NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wash** | gerund | Monday *not said here* | machines | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | Monday | wash day | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **boil** | past · passive | | clothes | | | | in a big tub | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in tub=Instrument | | 4 | **call** | participle | a big tub *not said here* | a copper | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent copper=Recipient | | 5 | **scrub** | participle | | a copper *not said here* | | a washboard | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **squeeze** | participle | | a washboard *not said here* | | a mangle with two rollers | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through mangle=Trajectory | | 7 | **press** | participle | | | | | | with heavy irons | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **heat** | participle | | heavy irons *not said here* | | | | on the stove | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on stove=Instrument | 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:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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