--- title: The Mongols had relay stations with fresh horses so that messengers… — The Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: The Mongols had relay stations with fresh horses so that messengers could ride hundreds of kilometres a day, showing a metal pass called a paiza. Who acts: Mongols, messengers, metal pass. A sentence of the lesson «The Mongols» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The Mongols](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/) / 12 # The Mongols, sentence 12 The Mongols had relay stations with fresh horses so that messengers could ride hundreds of kilometres a day, showing a metal pass called a paiza. **Who acts:** Mongols, messengers, metal pass · **What happens:** have, ride, show, call · **To what, where:** relay stations, hundreds, metal pass, paiza · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, messengers, metal pass), 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:12 # text = The Mongols had relay stations with fresh horses so that messengers could ride hundreds of kilometres a day, showing a metal pass called a paiza. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Mongols Mongol PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 relay relay NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 stations station NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 14 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 pass pass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 paiza paiza NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Mongols | relay stations | | | | with fresh horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Patient | | 2 | **ride** | could | that messengers | hundreds of kilometres | | | day | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | | 3 | **show** | gerund | that messengers *not said here* | a metal pass | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pass=Recipient | | 4 | **call** | participle | a metal pass *not said here* | a paiza | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paiza=Recipient | 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. **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:023-the-mongols.lesson:12`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Mongols, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/11/) - next →: [The Mongols, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/)