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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, punishment, laws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.lesson:10 # text = Some of Hammurabi's laws said the punishment should match the harm, an eye for an eye, but the laws were harsher on poor people and slaves than on the rich. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 Hammurabi Hammurabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 harsher harsh ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **match** | should | the punishment | the harm | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | the laws | | | | | on poor people and slaves; than the rich; harsh *property* | tree rules | 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:004-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/9/) - next →: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/)