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title: For centuries most people learned jobs as apprentices, living and wo… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: For centuries most people learned jobs as apprentices, living and working with a master for years, while guilds of bakers, weavers and builders set the rules. Who acts: most people, guilds. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the hist
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 19

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For centuries most people learned jobs as apprentices, living and working with a master for years, while guilds of bakers, weavers and builders set the rules.

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**Who acts:** most people, guilds · **What happens:** learn, live, work, set · **To what, where:** jobs, rules

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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 (most people, guilds), 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:19
# text = For centuries most people learned jobs as apprentices, living and working with a master for years, while guilds of bakers, weavers and builders set the rules.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	guilds	guild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bakers	baker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **learn** | past | most people | jobs |  |  | century | as apprentices | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | most people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | most people *not said here* |  |  |  | year | with a master | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with master=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **set** | past | guilds of bakers and weavers and builders | the rules |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rule=Result |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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