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title: For centuries many girls got little or no schooling; today nearly as… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: For centuries many girls got little or no schooling; today nearly as many girls as boys go to primary school, but in Afghanistan girls have been banned from secondary school since 2021. Who acts: many girls, today many girls. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 16

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For centuries many girls got little or no schooling; today nearly as many girls as boys go to primary school, but in Afghanistan girls have been banned from secondary school since 2021.

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**Who acts:** many girls, today many girls · **What happens:** get, go, ban · **To what, where:** little schooling, primary school, Afghanistan girls, secondary school

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» 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 (many girls, today many girls), 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:16
# text = For centuries many girls got little or no schooling; today nearly as many girls as boys go to primary school, but in Afghanistan girls have been banned from secondary school since 2021.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	schooling	schooling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
12	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	since	since	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | many girls | little schooling |  |  | century |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer schooling=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | present | today many girls |  |  | primary school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ban** | present · perfect · passive |  | Afghanistan girls |  | secondary school | since 2021 |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from school=Eventuality |

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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:064-learning-through-the-ages-schools-universities-libraries-and-science.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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