Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 15

Boys, and a few girls, learned to write at tablet-houses, and some practice tablets survive with mistakes and complaints about strict teachers.

Who acts: Boys, practice tablets · What happens: learn, write, survive · To what, where: tablet houses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing» of the history 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 (Boys, practice tablets), 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	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 girls	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 girls	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 girls	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girls	amod
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Boys	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Boys	punct
8	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 write	mark
10	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learned	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 houses	case
12	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 houses	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 tablet	punct
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 write	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 survive	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 survive	cc
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 tablets	det
18	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tablets	compound
19	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 survive	nsubj
20	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learned	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 mistakes	case
22	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 survive	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 complaints	cc
24	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mistakes	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 teachers	case
26	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 teachers	amod
27	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 complaints	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 learned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	learn	past	Boys and a few girls			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	to-infinitive	Boys and a few girls not said here	tablet houses		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	survive	present	some practice tablets		with mistakes and complaints about strict teachers	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:003-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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