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title: History is not about blaming children today; it is about understandi… — What was lost and what was gained: languages, fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: History is not about blaming children today; it is about understanding what was lost and gained, and treating each other fairly now. Who acts: History. A sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» of the history course of Mova's primary school w
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# What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge, sentence 4

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History is not about blaming children today; it is about understanding what was lost and gained, and treating each other fairly now.

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**Who acts:** History · **What happens:** not be, understanding, be, gain, treat · **To what, where:** History, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What was lost and what was gained: languages, foods, music and knowledge» 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 (History), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:4
# text = History is not about blaming children today; it is about understanding what was lost and gained, and treating each other fairly now.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.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	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:aux
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	blaming	blame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	understanding	understanding	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	20	obj	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **is** | present | History |  |  |  | today | blame *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **understanding** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present · passive |  | History |  |  |  | about, lose *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **treat** | gerund |  | each |  |  | now |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient |

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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:077-what-was-lost-and-what-was-gained.lesson:4`.

**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.

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

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