Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 9

Most children worked on farms or in workshops, many girls got no school at all, and most people learned a trade by watching and doing, like Patrick's plumber uncle.

Who acts: Most children, many girls, most people · What happens: work, get, learn, watch, do · To what, where: school, all, trade

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, many girls, most people), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worked	nsubj
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 farms	case
5	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 worked	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 workshops	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 workshops	case
8	workshops	workshop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 farms	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 workshops	punct
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girls	amod
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worked	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 school	det
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 got	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 learned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 learned	cc
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 learned	nsubj
21	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worked	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 trade	det
23	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 learned	obj
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 watching	mark
25	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 learned	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 doing	cc
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 watching	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 uncle	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	33 uncle	case
30	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 uncle	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 Patrick	case
32	plumber	plumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 uncle	compound
33	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 doing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	past	Most children			on farms or workshops	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme
2	get	past	many girls	no school	all		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent school=Theme at all=Asset
3	learn	past	most people	a trade			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic
4	watch	gerund	most people not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	do	gerund	most people not said here			like Patrick's plumber uncle	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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