Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 14
Around 1820 only about one adult in eight in the world could read, mostly priests, scribes, merchants and nobles; today nearly nine in ten can.
Who acts: one adult · What happens: read · To what, where: priests, 1820
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 (one adult), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 1820 | case |
| 2 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 read | obl |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 adult | nummod |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eight | case |
| 8 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 adult | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eight | nmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 priests | punct |
| 15 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 16 priests | advmod |
| 16 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 read | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scribes | punct |
| 18 | scribes | scribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 priests | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 merchants | punct |
| 20 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 priests | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nobles | cc |
| 22 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 priests | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
| 24 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 can | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 26 nine | advmod |
| 26 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 can | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 ten | case |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 nine | nmod |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | could | one adult in eight in the world | priests and scribes and merchants and nobles | 1820 | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic |
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:14.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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