--- title: People in Mexico made wheeled toy animals, but with no big animals t… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: People in Mexico made wheeled toy animals, but with no big animals to pull carts and steep land and lakes, they used canoes, carriers and roads instead. Who acts: People, carts. 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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 (People, carts), 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:11 # text = People in Mexico made wheeled toy animals, but with no big animals to pull carts and steep land and lakes, they used canoes, carriers and roads instead. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 wheeled wheel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 carts cart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 canoes canoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 carriers carrier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 30 instead instead ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | People in Mexico | wheeled toy animals | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Product | | 2 | **wheel** | participle | | | | | | | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pull** | to-infinitive | carts *= cart* *not said here* | carts and steep land and lakes | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | | 4 | **use** | past | carts *= cart* | canoes and carriers and roads | | | | with no big animals; instead *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient | 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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:11`. **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. **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. 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