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title: Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and all ancient knowledge was lost. Who acts: friend, Library. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 2

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Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and all ancient knowledge was lost.

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**Who acts:** friend, Library · **What happens:** say, burn, lose · **To what, where:** ancient knowledge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friend, Library), 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:2
# text = Maya's friend says the Library of Alexandria burned in one night and all ancient knowledge was lost.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Library	Library	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maya's friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **burn** | past | the Library of Alexandria |  |  |  | night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **lose** | past · passive |  | all ancient knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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