--- title: In Sumer about 4,000 years ago, boys trained as scribes in «tablet h… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics description: In Sumer about 4,000 years ago, boys trained as scribes in «tablet houses», copying signs again and again; most children did not go to school. Who acts: most children. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:12 # text = In Sumer about 4,000 years ago, boys trained as scribes in «tablet houses», copying signs again and again; most children did not go to school. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Sumer Sumer PROPN NNP _ 9 obl _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 4,000 4,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl:unmarked 6 ago ago ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 trained train VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 scribes scribe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 copying copy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 again again ADV RB _ 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **train** | past · passive | | boys | | Sumer | | as scribes; in tablet houses; ago *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as scribe=Attribute | | 2 | **copy** | gerund | | signs | | | again | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | | 3 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | most children | | | school | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=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:history:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:12`. **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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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