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title: Most children worked on farms or in workshops, many girls got no sch… — Learning through the ages: schools, universities… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most children worked on farms or in workshops, many girls got no school at all, and most people learned a trade by watching and doing, like Patrick's plumber uncle. Who acts: Most children, many girls, most people. A sentence of the lesson «Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries
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# Learning through the ages: schools, universities, libraries and science, sentence 9

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Most children worked on farms or in workshops, many girls got no school at all, and most people learned a trade by watching and doing, like Patrick's plumber uncle.

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**Who acts:** Most children, many girls, most people · **What happens:** work, get, learn, watch, do · **To what, where:** school, all, trade

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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 (Most children, many girls, most people), 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:9
# text = Most children worked on farms or in workshops, many girls got no school at all, and most people learned a trade by watching and doing, like Patrick's plumber uncle.
# 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 ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	workshops	workshop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	plumber	plumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **work** | past | Most children |  |  |  |  | on farms or workshops | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | many girls | no school |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent school=Theme at all=Asset |
| 3 | **learn** | past | most people | a trade |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | most people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | most people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like Patrick's plumber uncle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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 ×2. **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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