Mesopotamia: the first cities and writing, sentence 7
Children went to school to learn it, and some of their practice tablets still survive, mistakes and all.
Who acts: Children, some · What happens: go, learn, survive · To what, where: school, mistakes
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 (Children, some), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 learn | mark |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 learn | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 survive | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 survive | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 survive | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tablets | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tablets | nmod:poss |
| 13 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tablets | compound |
| 14 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 survive | advmod |
| 16 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mistakes | punct |
| 18 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 survive | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 all | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 mistakes | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Children | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | Children not said here | school | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | survive | present | some | mistakes | still | 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:7.
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 ×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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