--- title: Think of your school rules pinned on the wall so nobody can say they… — Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires · tree and pragmatics description: Think of your school rules pinned on the wall so nobody can say they did not know. Who acts: you, nobody, people, your. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/2/) [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/) / [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/) / 2 # Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, sentence 2 Think of your school rules pinned on the wall so nobody can say they did not know. **Who acts:** you, nobody, people, your · **What happens:** think, pin, say, not know, rule · **To what, where:** school rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: who acts (you, nobody, people, your), 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:2 # text = Think of your school rules pinned on the wall so nobody can say they did not know. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 6 pinned pin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 11 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of your school rules | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **pin** | participle | | your school rules *not said here* | | | | on the wall | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on wall=Co-Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | nobody | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **rule** | | your | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/1/) - next →: [Mesopotamia: wheels, laws and empires, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/4-mesopotamia-wheels-laws-and-empires/)