--- title: They had a full writing system, brilliant maths with their own zero,… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics description: They had a full writing system, brilliant maths with their own zero, and calendars that tracked the sun, the moon and Venus. Who acts: They, calendars. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Maya](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/) / 1 # The Maya, sentence 1 They had a full writing system, brilliant maths with their own zero, and calendars that tracked the sun, the moon and Venus. **Who acts:** They, calendars · **What happens:** have, track · **To what, where:** full writing system, sun This is a sentence of the lesson «The Maya» 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 (They, calendars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:018-the-maya.lesson:1 # text = They had a full writing system, brilliant maths with their own zero, and calendars that tracked the sun, the moon and Venus. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 018-the-maya.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 zero zero NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 calendars calendar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tracked track VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | They | a full writing system and brilliant maths with maths's own zero and calendars | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Patient | | 2 | **track** | past | calendars | the sun and the moon and Venus | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=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:history:018-the-maya.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Native peoples of North America, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/20/) - next →: [The Maya, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/18-the-maya/)