--- title: They were planned like a modern town: straight streets in a grid, br… — Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first ki… · tree and pragmatics description: They were planned like a modern town: straight streets in a grid, bricks all the same size, and houses with bathrooms and toilets joined to covered drains. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/1/) [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/) / [Ancient India: the Indus cities and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/7-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms/) / 1 # Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms, sentence 1 They were planned like a modern town: straight streets in a grid, bricks all the same size, and houses with bathrooms and toilets joined to covered drains. **What happens:** plan, join, cover · **To what, where:** cities, bathrooms This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient India: the Indus cities and the first kingdoms» 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:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.lesson:1 # text = They were planned like a modern town: straight streets in a grid, bricks all the same size, and houses with bathrooms and toilets joined to covered drains. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.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 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 planned plan VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 grid grid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bricks brick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 bathrooms bathroom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 30 drains drain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plan** | past · passive | | cities *= city* | | | | like a modern town | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **join** | participle | | bathrooms and toilets *not said here* | | | | to covered drains | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to drain=Co-Patient | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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:007-ancient-india-the-indus-cities-and-the-first-kingdoms.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): 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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