--- title: Cars had no roof and no windscreen, and roads were dusty, so drivers… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: Cars had no roof and no windscreen, and roads were dusty, so drivers wore goggles, gauntlets, caps and long coats, and the car's horn really went «poop-poop» when you squeezed its rubber bulb. Who acts: Cars, roads, drivers, horn. 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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 (Cars, roads, drivers, horn), 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:3 # text = Cars had no roof and no windscreen, and roads were dusty, so drivers wore goggles, gauntlets, caps and long coats, and the car's horn really went «poop-poop» when you squeezed its rubber bulb. # 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 1 Cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 windscreen windscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 dusty dusty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 17 goggles goggle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 gauntlets gauntlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 caps cap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 34 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 poop poop NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 squeezed squeeze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 43 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Cars | no roof and no windscreen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | roads | | | | | dusty *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wear** | past | drivers | goggles and gauntlets and caps and long coats | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent goggle=Source | | 4 | **go** | past | the car's horn | poop poop | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **squeeze** | past | you | horn's rubber bulb | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulb=Theme | 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:3`. **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. **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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