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title: The Inca kept records with quipu, strings with knots of different co… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: The Inca kept records with quipu, strings with knots of different colours and positions, to count people, taxes and goods. Who acts: Inca. A sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 16

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The Inca kept records with quipu, strings with knots of different colours and positions, to count people, taxes and goods.

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**Who acts:** Inca · **What happens:** keep, count · **To what, where:** records, people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Aztecs and the Inca» 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 (Inca), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson:16
# text = The Inca kept records with quipu, strings with knots of different colours and positions, to count people, taxes and goods.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.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	Inca	Inca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	quipu	quipu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	knots	knot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	positions	position	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **keep** | past | the Inca | records |  |  |  | with quipu | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | to-infinitive | the Inca *not said here* | people and taxes and goods |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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:019-the-aztecs-and-the-inca.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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