--- title: The printing press made books cheap, so many more people could learn… — Inventions, computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: The printing press made books cheap, so many more people could learn to read; the telephone and the radio carried voices far away almost instantly. Who acts: printing press, many more people, telephone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (printing press, many more people, telephone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:059-inventions-computers-internet.lesson:3 # text = The printing press made books cheap, so many more people could learn to read; the telephone and the radio carried voices far away almost instantly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 059-inventions-computers-internet.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 printing printing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 press press NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:root 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 telephone telephone NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 almost almost ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the printing press | books | | | | cheap *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset book=Product | | 2 | **learn** | could | many more people | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | many more people *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | past | the telephone and the radio | voices | | | | away, instantly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | 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. **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:world:059-inventions-computers-internet.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Inventions, computers and the internet, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/2/) - next →: [Inventions, computers and the internet, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/59-inventions-computers-internet/)