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title: Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press wit… — Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation · tree and pragmatics
description: Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused. Who acts: Johannes. A sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 5

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Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused.

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**Who acts:** Johannes · **What happens:** build, reuse · **To what, where:** printing press, 1450, metal letters

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» 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 (Johannes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:5
# text = Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg in Germany built a printing press with movable metal letters that could be reused.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.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): no change
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1450	1450	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	Johannes	Johannes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	Gutenberg	Gutenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	printing	printing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	movable	movable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	reused	reuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Johannes in Germany | a printing press |  | 1450 |  | with metal letters | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent press=Theme with letter=Source |
| 2 | **reuse** | could · passive |  | metal letters |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

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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.

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**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:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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