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title: The Maya played a ball game with a heavy rubber ball, hitting it wit… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: The Maya played a ball game with a heavy rubber ball, hitting it with their hips through stone rings high on a wall, and the game had religious meaning. Who acts: Maya, game. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Maya, sentence 15

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The Maya played a ball game with a heavy rubber ball, hitting it with their hips through stone rings high on a wall, and the game had religious meaning.

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**Who acts:** Maya, game · **What happens:** play, hit, have · **To what, where:** ball game, Maya, stone rings, religious meaning

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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 (Maya, game), 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:15
# text = The Maya played a ball game with a heavy rubber ball, hitting it with their hips through stone rings high on a wall, and the game had religious meaning.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the Maya | a ball game |  |  |  | with a heavy rubber ball | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with ball=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **hit** | gerund | the Maya *not said here* | Maya |  | stone rings |  | with calendars's hips | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hip=Instrument |
| 3 | **have** | past | the game | religious meaning |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient |

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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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**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 ×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.

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