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title: The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was built in the 1600s by the emperor… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics
description: The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was built in the 1600s by the emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, not as a palace to live in. Who acts: Shah. A sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Buildings and architecture, sentence 9

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The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was built in the 1600s by the emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, not as a palace to live in.

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**Who acts:** Shah · **What happens:** build, live in · **To what, where:** Taj Mahal, 1600s

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buildings and architecture» of the arts 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 (Shah), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:034-buildings-and-architecture.lesson:9
# text = The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, was built in the 1600s by the emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, not as a palace to live in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 034-buildings-and-architecture.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): R5-strong ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Taj	Taj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mahal	Mahal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Agra	Agra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	1600s	1600	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
16	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound
17	Shah	shah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:agent	_	_
18	Jahan	Jahan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	Mumtaz	Mumtaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
26	Mahal	Mahal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **build** | past · passive | Shah | the Taj Mahal in Agra |  | the 1600s |  | as a tomb for Jahan's wife and a palace; the emperor *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **live in** | to-infinitive | Shah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:arts:034-buildings-and-architecture.lesson:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×3. **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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