Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 16

For centuries many girls got little or no schooling; today nearly as many girls as boys go to primary school, but in Afghanistan girls have been banned from secondary school since 2021.

Who acts: many girls, today many girls · What happens: get, go, ban · To what, where: little schooling, primary school, Afghanistan girls, secondary 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 (many girls, today many girls), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 centuries	case
2	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girls	amod
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 schooling	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 schooling	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 little	conj
9	schooling	schooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 girls	punct
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 girls	compound
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 girls	amod
15	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	nsubj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
17	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 school	case
20	primary	primary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 school	amod
21	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 banned	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 banned	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 girls	case
25	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 girls	compound
26	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 banned	nsubj:pass
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 banned	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 banned	aux:pass
29	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 got	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 school	case
31	secondary	secondary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 school	amod
32	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 banned	obl
33	since	since	ADP	_	34 2021	case
34	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 banned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	get	past	many girls	little schooling		century	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer schooling=Stimulus
2	go	present	today many girls		primary school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
3	ban	present · perfect · passive		Afghanistan girls	secondary school	since 2021	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from school=Eventuality

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:16.

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 ×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.

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