Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 12

In Sumer about 4,000 years ago, boys trained as scribes in «tablet houses», copying signs again and again; most children did not go to school.

Who acts: most children · What happens: train, copy, not go · To what, where: boys, Sumer, signs, school

This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 (most children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Sumer	case
2	Sumer	Sumer	PROPN	_	9 trained	obl
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 4,000	advmod
4	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ago	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 trained	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trained	punct
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trained	nsubj:pass
9	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 scribes	case
11	scribes	scribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trained	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 houses	case
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 houses	punct
14	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 houses	compound
15	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trained	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 houses	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 copying	punct
18	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 trained	advcl
19	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 copying	obj
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 copying	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 again	cc
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 again	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 go	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trained	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 school	case
30	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 trained	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	train	past · passive		boys	Sumer		as scribes; in tablet houses; ago property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as scribe=Attribute
2	copy	gerund		signs		again		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
3	not go	past · do-support	most children		school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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