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title: The Taj Mahal in Agra was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as… — The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia · tree and pragmatics
description: The Taj Mahal in Agra was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, mostly between 1632 and 1648, by about 20,000 workers. Who acts: Shah. A sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with 
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# The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia, sentence 10

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The Taj Mahal in Agra was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, mostly between 1632 and 1648, by about 20,000 workers.

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**Who acts:** Shah · **What happens:** build · **To what, where:** Taj

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Mughals, the Ming and the empires of Asia» of the geography 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:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:10
# text = The Taj Mahal in Agra was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, mostly between 1632 and 1648, by about 20,000 workers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	Taj	Taj	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Mahal	Mahal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Agra	Agra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
10	Mughal	mughal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound
12	Shah	shah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
13	Jahan	Jahan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Mumtaz	Mumtaz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	Mahal	Mahal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1632	1632	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	1648	1648	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | Taj |  |  |  | as a tomb for emperor's wife; between 1632; the Mughal emperor *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

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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:geography:035-the-mughals-the-ming-and-the-empires-of-asia.lesson:10`.

**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 ×4, 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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