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title: Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez was founded in 859 by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri,… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez was founded in 859 by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, long before Oxford; but who is «first» depends on what you count as a university, so it is a real argument. Who acts: woman, you, university. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 6

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Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez was founded in 859 by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, long before Oxford; but who is «first» depends on what you count as a university, so it is a real argument.

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**Who acts:** woman, you, university · **What happens:** found, be, depend, count · **To what, where:** Al, 859, real argument

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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 (woman, you, university), 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:6
# text = Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez was founded in 859 by a woman, Fatima al-Fihri, long before Oxford; but who is «first» depends on what you count as a university, so it is a real argument.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Qarawiyyin	Qarawiyyin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Fez	Fez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	859	859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Fihri	Fihri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	advmod	_	_
28	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
29	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	university	university	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past · passive | a woman | Al in Fez |  | 859 |  | long *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depend** | present | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on what=Theme |
| 4 | **count** | present | you |  |  |  |  | as a university | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as university=Attribute |
| 5 | **is a** | present | university | a real argument |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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