--- title: Real life: Stone Age people in Britain did not write; writing came t… — Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Writte… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: Stone Age people in Britain did not write; writing came to Britain with the Romans, about 2,000 years ago. Who acts: Real life, writing. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/) / 27 # Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down, sentence 27 Real life: Stone Age people in Britain did not write; writing came to Britain with the Romans, about 2,000 years ago. **Who acts:** Real life, writing · **What happens:** not write, come · **To what, where:** Britain This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the First Letter Was Written, part 3: «a great invention» and the road on Merrow Down» of the books 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 (Real life, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:27 # text = Real life: Stone Age people in Britain did not write; writing came to Britain with the Romans, about 2,000 years ago. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 Stone Stone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 Age age PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 writing write NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Romans Roman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **write** | past · do-support | Real life | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | writing | | | Britain | | with the Romans; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to britain=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:books:086-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention.lesson:27`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories, How the First Letter…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/26/) - next →: [Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/87-justso-alphabet-1-a-carp-fishs-mouth/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/)