--- title: In 1908 only quite rich people owned motor cars; most people walked,… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, cara… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1908 only quite rich people owned motor cars; most people walked, cycled, rode in horse-drawn carts and buses or took the train. Who acts: rich people, most 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 (rich people, most 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:9 # text = In 1908 only quite rich people owned motor cars; most people walked, cycled, rode in horse-drawn carts and buses or took the train. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1908 1908 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 7 owned own 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=Part|Voice=Pass 8 motor motor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 cycled cycle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 17 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 21 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 carts cart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:appos 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **own** | past | rich people | motor cars | | 1908 | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot car=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | most people | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cycle** | past | most people *not said here* | | | | | | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ride** | past | most people *not said here* | drawn carts and buses | | | | in horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **draw** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | past | most people *not said here* | the train | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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