--- title: Ibn al-Haytham in Cairo, around the year 1000, tested ideas about li… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics description: Ibn al-Haytham in Cairo, around the year 1000, tested ideas about light with experiments; science is a way of checking ideas, not just a list of facts. Who acts: Ibn, science, way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ibn, science, way), 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:21 # text = Ibn al-Haytham in Cairo, around the year 1000, tested ideas about light with experiments; science is a way of checking ideas, not just a list of facts. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ibn Ibn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Haytham Haytham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Cairo Cairo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 11 1000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 flat _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 20 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 24 of of SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 26 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | past | Ibn | ideas | | | year | about light; with experiments | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | science | a way and a list of facts | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | gerund | a way and a list of facts *not said here* | ideas | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | | 4 | **list** | | | facts | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:21`. **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): 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. 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