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title: Their capital, Tenochtitlan, had causeways, canals, floating gardens… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: Their capital, Tenochtitlan, had causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and was bigger than most European cities of the time. Who acts: capital. 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 pragmati
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 2

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Their capital, Tenochtitlan, had causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and was bigger than most European cities of the time.

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**Who acts:** capital · **What happens:** have, float, be · **To what, where:** causeways

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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 (capital), 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:2
# text = Their capital, Tenochtitlan, had causeways, canals, floating gardens and a huge market, and was bigger than most European cities of the time.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Tenochtitlan	Tenochtitlan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	causeways	causeway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	canals	canal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
23	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | past | people's capital | causeways and canals and floating gardens and a huge market |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent causeway=Patient |
| 2 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | people's capital *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than most European cities of the time; big *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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. **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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