--- title: Around 1820 only about one adult in eight in the world could read, m… — Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned t… · tree and pragmatics description: Around 1820 only about one adult in eight in the world could read, mostly priests, scribes, merchants and nobles; today nearly nine in ten can. Who acts: one adult. A sentence of the lesson «Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other» of the history course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/14/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [Writing, laws and money: how strangers…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/) / 14 # Writing, laws and money: how strangers learned to trust each other, sentence 14 Around 1820 only about one adult in eight in the world could read, mostly priests, scribes, merchants and nobles; today nearly nine in ten can. **Who acts:** one adult · **What happens:** read · **To what, where:** priests, 1820 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 (one adult), 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:14 # text = Around 1820 only about one adult in eight in the world could read, mostly priests, scribes, merchants and nobles; today nearly nine in ten can. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Around around ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1820 1820 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 18 scribes scribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 nobles noble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 24 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nmod _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | could | one adult in eight in the world | priests and scribes and merchants and nobles | | 1820 | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Topic | 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:history:063-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other.lesson:14`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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