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title: The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its ti… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics
description: The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its time, not the monster army shown in the film 300. A sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 18

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The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its time, not the monster army shown in the film 300.

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**What happens:** organise, show · **To what, where:** Persian Empire, monster army, film

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires» 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: 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:18
# text = The Persian Empire was well organised and fairly tolerant for its time, not the monster army shown in the film 300.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	organised	organise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	fairly	fairly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
18	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **organise** | past · passive |  | the Persian Empire |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | participle |  | the monster army *not said here* |  | the film |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP 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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**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:18`.

**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/).

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