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title: A clay tablet from Ur, about 3,750 years old, is a customer's angry… — Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A clay tablet from Ur, about 3,750 years old, is a customer's angry letter about bad copper. Who acts: clay tablet. A sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 11

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A clay tablet from Ur, about 3,750 years old, is a customer's angry letter about bad copper.

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**Who acts:** clay tablet · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** angry letter

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» 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 (clay tablet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:11
# text = A clay tablet from Ur, about 3,750 years old, is a customer's angry letter about bad copper.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ur	Ur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	3,750	3,750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a clay tablet from Ur | a customer's angry letter |  |  |  | about bad copper | tree rules |

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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:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:11`.

**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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