--- title: Many poorer women earned money as washerwomen, washing other familie… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: Many poorer women earned money as washerwomen, washing other families' clothes by hand; washing machines only became common in British homes in the 1950s and 1960s. Who acts: Many poorer women. 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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 (Many poorer women), 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:18 # text = Many poorer women earned money as washerwomen, washing other families' clothes by hand; washing machines only became common in British homes in the 1950s and 1960s. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 poorer poor ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 earned earn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 washerwomen washerwoman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 12 ' 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 9 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 washing wash NOUN NN _ 18 compound _ _ 18 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 1950s 1950 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 1960s 1960s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** | past | Many poorer women | money | | | | as washerwomen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | gerund | Many poorer women *not said here* | other families's clothes | | | | by hand | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 3 | **become** | past · passive | | washing machines | | | | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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