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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 17

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In France, Diderot and others published the Encyclopédie from 1751 to collect knowledge for ordinary readers; Wikipedia, started in 2001, is written by volunteers and free.

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**Who acts:** Diderot, volunteers · **What happens:** publish, collect, start, write · **To what, where:** Encyclopédie, France, knowledge, Wikipedia, 2001

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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 (Diderot, volunteers), 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:17
# text = In France, Diderot and others published the Encyclopédie from 1751 to collect knowledge for ordinary readers; Wikipedia, started in 2001, is written by volunteers and free.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Diderot	Diderot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	published	publish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Encyclopédie	Encyclopédie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	1751	1751	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advcl
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Wikipedia	Wikipedia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:agent	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **publish** | past | Diderot and others | the Encyclopédie |  | France |  | from 1751 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent encyclopédie=Result from 1751=Material |
| 2 | **collect** | to-infinitive | Diderot and others *not said here* | knowledge |  |  |  | for ordinary readers | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme |
| 3 | **start** | participle |  | Wikipedia *not said here* |  | 2001 |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **write** | present · passive | volunteers | Wikipedia |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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, 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.

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

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