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title: Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford. — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford. Who acts: Yasmin, oldest university, Tom. 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 and the pragmati
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 5

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Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.

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**Who acts:** Yasmin, oldest university, Tom · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** Fez, Oxford · **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 (Yasmin, oldest university, Tom), 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:5
# text = Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.
# 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	Yasmin	Yasmin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Fez	Fez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Yasmin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the oldest university |  |  | Fez |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Tom | Oxford |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oxford=Topic |

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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:5`.

**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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