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title: What really happened: it was damaged by fire in 48 BCE and probably… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: What really happened: it was damaged by fire in 48 BCE and probably faded slowly over centuries as money and scholars left. Who acts: fire, scholars. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science» of the history course of Mova's primary school with
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 3

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What really happened: it was damaged by fire in 48 BCE and probably faded slowly over centuries as money and scholars left.

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**Who acts:** fire, scholars · **What happens:** happen, damage, fade, leave · **To what, where:** knowledge, 48

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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 (fire, scholars), 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:3
# text = What really happened: it was damaged by fire in 48 BCE and probably faded slowly over centuries as money and scholars left.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	48	48	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
12	BCE	BCE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **damage** | past · passive | fire | knowledge |  | 48  BCE |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fade** | past | fire *not said here* |  |  |  | century | as money; probably, slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | past | scholars |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`.

**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, R6-punct-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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