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title: Lucía's friend goes further: «The Aztecs didn't even have the wheel,… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lucía's friend goes further: «The Aztecs didn't even have the wheel, they weren't that smart.» Who acts: friend, Aztecs. A sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses, sentence 1

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Lucía's friend goes further: «The Aztecs didn't even have the wheel, they weren't that smart.»

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**Who acts:** friend, Aztecs · **What happens:** go, not have, not be · **To what, where:** wheel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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 (friend, Aztecs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:1
# text = Lucía's friend goes further: «The Aztecs didn't even have the wheel, they weren't that smart.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.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 ×2
1	Lucía	Lucía	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Aztecs	Aztec	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | **go** | present | Lucía's friend |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the Aztecs | the wheel |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past | Aztecs *= aztec* |  |  |  |  | smart, that *property* | tree rules |

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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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2. **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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