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title: On the wide grasslands of Asia, called the steppe, the Mongols lived… — The Mongols · tree and pragmatics
description: On the wide grasslands of Asia, called the steppe, the Mongols lived as nomads in round felt tents called gers, herding horses, sheep and goats, and children learned to ride at three or four. Who acts: Mongols, felt tents, children. A sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» of the history course of Mov
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# The Mongols, sentence 0

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On the wide grasslands of Asia, called the steppe, the Mongols lived as nomads in round felt tents called gers, herding horses, sheep and goats, and children learned to ride at three or four.

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**Who acts:** Mongols, felt tents, children · **What happens:** call, live, feel, herd, learn, ride · **To what, where:** steppe, wide grasslands, felt tents, gers, horses, three · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:023-the-mongols.lesson:0
# text = On the wide grasslands of Asia, called the steppe, the Mongols lived as nomads in round felt tents called gers, herding horses, sheep and goats, and children learned to ride at three or four.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 023-the-mongols.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grasslands	grassland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Mongols	Mongol	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nomads	nomad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	gers	ger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	herding	herd	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
25	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **call** | past |  | the steppe |  | the wide grasslands of Asia |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent steppe=Recipient |
| 2 | **live** | past | the Mongols |  |  | felt tents |  | as nomads | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location |
| 3 | **feel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | participle | felt tents *not said here* | gers |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **herd** | gerund | the Mongols *not said here* | horses and sheep and goats |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 6 | **learn** | past | children |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **ride** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  | three |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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