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title: They did not win alone, like a small team in a film beating a giant:… — The Aztecs and the Inca · tree and pragmatics
description: They did not win alone, like a small team in a film beating a giant: tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox did most of it. Who acts: neighbours, film, tens. 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 pr
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# The Aztecs and the Inca, sentence 7

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They did not win alone, like a small team in a film beating a giant: tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox did most of it.

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**Who acts:** neighbours, film, tens · **What happens:** not win, beat, do · **To what, where:** giant, most

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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 (neighbours, film, tens), 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:7
# text = They did not win alone, like a small team in a film beating a giant: tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox did most of it.
# 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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
14	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	allies	ally	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **not** **win** | past · do-support | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  |  | like a small team in a film; alone *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **beat** | gerund | a film *not said here* | a giant |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | tens of thousands of native allies and smallpox | most of smallpox |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality |

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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:7`.

**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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