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title: In Britain a law of 1850 let towns fund free public libraries, and A… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Britain a law of 1850 let towns fund free public libraries, and Andrew Carnegie paid for about 2,500 library buildings around 1900. Who acts: law, towns, Andrew Carnegie. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history course of Mo
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 18

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In Britain a law of 1850 let towns fund free public libraries, and Andrew Carnegie paid for about 2,500 library buildings around 1900.

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**Who acts:** law, towns, Andrew Carnegie · **What happens:** let, fund, pay · **To what, where:** Britain, free public libraries, 1900

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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 (law, towns, Andrew Carnegie), 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:18
# text = In Britain a law of 1850 let towns fund free public libraries, and Andrew Carnegie paid for about 2,500 library buildings around 1900.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1850	1850	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fund	fund	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	libraries	library	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Carnegie	Carnegie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	2,500	2500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **let** | past | a law of 1850 |  |  | Britain |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fund** | infinitive | towns | free public libraries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** | past | Andrew Carnegie |  |  | 1900 |  | for 2,500 library buildings | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for building=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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**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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