--- title: Transport: from horses to planes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Transport: from horses to planes», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with animals. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Transport: from horses to planes # Transport: from horses to planes Lesson 99 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/0/) — For most of history people travelled on foot, by boat, or with animals. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/1/) — Boats are among the oldest ways to travel, because water carries heavy loads easily. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/2/) — Horses were tamed about 5,500 years ago, and the wheel was invented at about the same time, so animals could pull carts. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/3/) — Each new kind of transport solved a problem of the one before. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/4/) — Sailing ships used the free power of the wind but stopped when the wind dropped. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/5/) — The steam engine burned coal to boil water, and the steam pushed the engine; from the 1820s steam trains pulled long lines of wagons on iron rails. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/6/) — Smooth rails cut friction so much that one engine could pull what hundreds of horses could not. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/7/) — Around 1886 Karl Benz built a car with a petrol engine. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/9/) — On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/11/) — Today jet planes cross an ocean in a few hours — a trip that took weeks by sailing ship. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/12/) — Faster is not always better. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/13/) — Planes are fast but use a lot of fuel; ships are slow but can carry huge loads cheaply, so most of the world's goods still travel by sea. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/14/) — Boats are among the oldest kinds of transport. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/15/) — Horses were tamed about 5,500 years ago, around the time the wheel was invented. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/16/) — Sailing ships are driven by the wind. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/17/) — A steam engine burns fuel to boil water, and the steam pushes the engine's parts. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/19/) — Wheels on smooth iron rails have much less friction than wheels on a rough road. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/20/) — Karl Benz built one of the first petrol-engined cars around 1886. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/21/) — Henry Ford's moving assembly line, started in 1913, made cars cheap enough for many families. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/22/) — The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/23/) — A plane's wings push air downwards, and the air pushes the plane upwards; this is called lift. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/24/) — Jet planes can cross the Atlantic Ocean in about seven hours. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/25/) — Most of the world's goods are carried by ship, because ships move huge loads cheaply. - ← previous: [Explorers and how the world was mapped](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/) - next →: [Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)