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title: That is what happened when Spanish priests burned Maya books; only f… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: That is what happened when Spanish priests burned Maya books; only four survive, and a huge amount of knowledge was lost for ever. Who acts: That, Spanish priests, four. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Maya, sentence 4

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That is what happened when Spanish priests burned Maya books; only four survive, and a huge amount of knowledge was lost for ever.

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**Who acts:** That, Spanish priests, four · **What happens:** be, burn, survive, lose, amount · **To what, where:** Maya books, huge amount, knowledge

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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 (That, Spanish priests, four), 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:4
# text = That is what happened when Spanish priests burned Maya books; only four survive, and a huge amount of knowledge was lost for ever.
# 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): no change
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	_
14	survive	survive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | happen *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | past | Spanish priests | Maya books |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 3 | **survive** | present | four |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past · passive |  | a huge amount of knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **amount** |  |  | knowledge |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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**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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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