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title: Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque had tall stone pyramids with tem… — The Maya · tree and pragmatics
description: Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque had tall stone pyramids with temples on top, palaces and plazas, and some are still being discovered with lasers fired from aeroplanes. Who acts: Maya cities. A sentence of the lesson «The Maya» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The Maya, sentence 9

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Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque had tall stone pyramids with temples on top, palaces and plazas, and some are still being discovered with lasers fired from aeroplanes.

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**Who acts:** Maya cities · **What happens:** have, discover, fire · **To what, where:** tall stone pyramids, some, lasers, aeroplanes

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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 cities), 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:9
# text = Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque had tall stone pyramids with temples on top, palaces and plazas, and some are still being discovered with lasers fired from aeroplanes.
# 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	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tikal	Tikal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Palenque	Palenque	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	plazas	plaza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	lasers	laser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	fired	fire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	aeroplanes	aeroplane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	.	.	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 | **have** | past | Maya cities like Tikal and Palenque | tall stone pyramids |  |  |  | with temples on top and palaces and plazas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pyramid=Patient |
| 2 | **discover** | present · passive |  | some |  |  | still | with lasers | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **fire** | participle |  | lasers *not said here* |  | aeroplanes |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from aeroplane=Initial\_Location |

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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: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): 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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