Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 20

Medieval universities trained mostly priests, lawyers and doctors; they used Latin and words from guilds: a «master» could teach, like a master craftsman, and students could travel between countries.

Who acts: Medieval universities, priests, master, students · What happens: train, use, teach, travel · To what, where: priests, Latin, countries

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 (Medieval universities, priests, master, students), 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	Medieval	medieval	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 universities	amod
2	universities	university	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	nsubj
3	trained	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	parataxis
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	3 trained	advmod
5	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trained	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lawyers	punct
7	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 priests	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doctors	cc
9	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 priests	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Latin	Latin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 used	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 words	cc
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Latin	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 guilds	case
17	guilds	guild	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 words	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 teach	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 master	det
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 master	punct
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teach	nsubj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 master	punct
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 teach	aux
24	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 craftsman	punct
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 craftsman	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 craftsman	det
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 craftsman	compound
29	craftsman	craftsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teach	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 travel	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 travel	cc
32	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 travel	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 travel	aux
34	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 teach	conj
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 countries	case
36	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 travel	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trained	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	train	past	Medieval universities	priests and lawyers and doctors		mostly property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme
2	use	past	priests = priest	Latin and words from guilds			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latin=Patient
3	teach speech: other	could	a master			like a master craftsman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	travel	could	students		countries		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between country=Trajectory

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:20.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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