Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 11
A clay tablet from Ur, about 3,750 years old, is a customer's angry letter about bad copper.
Who acts: clay tablet · What happens: be · To what, where: angry letter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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 (clay tablet), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tablet | det |
| 2 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tablet | compound |
| 3 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Ur | case |
| 5 | Ur | Ur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tablet | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 old | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 3,750 | advmod |
| 8 | 3,750 | 3,750 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 old | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tablet | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tablet | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 letter | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 customer | det |
| 14 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 customer | case |
| 16 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 letter | amod |
| 17 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 copper | case |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 copper | amod |
| 20 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 letter | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 letter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a clay tablet from Ur | a customer's angry letter | about bad copper | tree rules |
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:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:11.
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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