--- title: The Aztecs made little wheeled toy animals, so they knew the idea, b… — Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses… · tree and pragmatics description: The Aztecs made little wheeled toy animals, so they knew the idea, but with no horses or oxen to pull carts and a city built on a lake, canoes worked better. Who acts: Aztecs, canoes. 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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 (Aztecs, canoes), 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:3 # text = The Aztecs made little wheeled toy animals, so they knew the idea, but with no horses or oxen to pull carts and a city built on a lake, canoes worked better. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Aztecs Aztec PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 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 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 oxen ox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl _ _ 23 carts cart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 32 canoes canoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the Aztecs | little 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 | **know** | past | Aztecs *= aztec* | the idea | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus | | 4 | **pull** | to-infinitive | canoes *not said here* | carts and a city | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | | 5 | **build** | participle | | a city *not said here* | | a lake | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on lake=Source | | 6 | **work** | past | canoes | | | | | with no horses or oxen; well *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with horse=Co-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:062-everyday-inventions-pots-boats-wheels-horses-clocks-and-glasses.lesson:3`. **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, 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. 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