Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 23

Kipling's last joke, that little girls do not like learning to read and write, is an old idea that is wrong: girls and boys learn to read and write equally well, and many great writers are women.

Who acts: little girls, last joke, old idea, girls, many great writers, Kipling · What happens: not like, learn, read, write, be, joke · To what, where: last joke, old idea, women

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girls, last joke, old idea, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 joke	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kipling	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 joke	amod
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 idea	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 like	mark
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girls	amod
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 like	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 like	advmod
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 joke	acl
12	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 like	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 read	mark
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learning	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 write	cc
16	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 read	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 joke	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 idea	cop
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 idea	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 idea	amod
21	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 wrong	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wrong	cop
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 idea	acl:relcl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 girls	punct
26	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 learn	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 boys	cc
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 girls	conj
29	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 idea	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 read	mark
31	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 learn	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 write	cc
33	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 read	conj
34	equally	equally	ADV	_	33 write	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 equally	fixed
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 women	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 women	cc
38	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 writers	amod
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 writers	amod
40	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 women	nsubj
41	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 women	cop
42	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 idea	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 idea	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	little girls	Kipling's last joke not said here		tree rules
2	learn not said to happen	gerund	little girls not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	read	to-infinitive	little girls not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	write	infinitive	little girls not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	Kipling's last joke	a old idea and women		tree rules
6	is	present	a old idea and women		wrong property	tree rules
7	learn	present	girls and boys			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	read	to-infinitive	girls and boys not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	write	infinitive	girls and boys not said here		equally property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a	present	many great writers	women		tree rules
11	joke		Kipling			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:23.

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): 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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